Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea (New Directions Paperbook)

Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea (New Directions Paperbook)

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: â‚¬Å“Death always looks for us. It comes from beyond the continents. It crosses long distances holding a basket of fire in its hand.â‚¬Â
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. 5 b&w illustrations
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber illustrations
ReleaseDate 2009-05-05
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780811218313

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