Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea (New Directions Paperbook)
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (644 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0811218317 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A special treat Mikhail preserves the vitality of her nurturing milieu with the strength to … endure in a new world. (David Varno - The Brooklyn Rail)
An impressionistic memoir by the award-winning Iraqi-American writer, Dunya Mikhail, Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea covers her earliest sensations of childhood to a more complicated grasp of death, beginning with the death of her father to the Gulf War and the subsequent Iraqi War. Mikhail writes: “Death always looks for us. It crosses long distances holding a basket of fire in its hand.” The two halves of Mikhail's book merge past and present in a lyrical memoir that moves between memories of her childhood, her father's death, her Iraqi poet-peers and friends, her job as a journalist for the Baghdad Observer, and culminates with the birth of her daughter Larsa. It comes from beyond the continents. 5 b&w illustrations
. While working as a journalist for the Baghdad Observer, she faced increasing threats from the authorities and fled to the United States in the late 1990s. Mikhail teaches atOakland University, Michigan. In 2001, she was awarded the UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing. Dunya Mikhail was born in Iraq in 1965. Her first poetry book in English
Grandma Moses said Iraqi poetry. Very moving comtemporary Iraqi poetry (in English and Arabic) about life in war-torn Iraq and the transition to living in the United States.The author is female. The English translation keeps the flavor of the beautiful Arabic language.