What I Heard About Iraq Eliot Weinberger

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In an extraordinary montage of facts, sound-bites and testimonies, Weinberger assembles an uncompromising and blackly comic narrative which permits the voices of war to speak for themselves, and allows the protagonists and the apologists to damn themselves in their own words.

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What I Heard About Iraq Eliot Weinberger

The Iraq war has unleashed such a torrent of opinion...impassioned polemic, neo-con apologia, world-weary cynicism...that it feels like the important truths are being lost in a media feeding-frenzy. Eliot Weinberger eschews the rhetoric of the soapbox in an extraordinary montage of facts, sound-bites and testimonies. He assembles an uncompromising and blackly comic narrative, which permits the voices of the war to speak for themselves, and allows the protagonists to damn themselves in their own words.

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What I Heard About Iraq lays bare the false pieties and covert rapacity of the war and occupation. The result is something very special indeed. - Hanif Kureishi In this rremarkable piece of work, Eliot Weinberger nails the tragedy and absurdity of the War Against Terrorism. He is a master essayist, a furious thinker and an exceptionally elegant writer. - Jenny Diski Although Eliot Weinberger was a few blocks away from the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001, his has been a rare voice of sanity on the subject ever since. Here he has harnessed his gifts as poet, translator and political commentator to produce a work of incantatory power in which the lies and misinformation about Iraq are allowed to collapse by sheer weight of accumulation. - Amitav Ghosh

Über Eliot Weinberger

Eric Weinberger is an essayist and translator. His edition of Jorges Luis Borges's Selected Non-Fictions (1999) received the National Book Critics Circle prize for criticism, and he is the primary translator of the work of Octavio Paz into English. In 1992 he was given PEN's first Gregory Kolovakos Award for his work promoting Hispanic literature in the United States, and in 2000 he was the first American literary writer to be awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle by the government of Mexico. His most recent publications are the collection of essays Karmic Traces: 1993-1999 and a translation of Bei Dao's Unlock (with Iona Man-Cheong). He lives in New York City.

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9781844670369

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1844670368

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What I Heard About Iraq Eliot Weinberger

Autor

Eliot Weinberger

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Verso Books

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20050523

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