| Outcast Contributor(s): Ballas, Shimon (Author), Alcalay, Ammiel (Translator), Shelach, Oz (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0872864812 ISBN-13: 9780872864818 Publisher: City Lights Books OUR PRICE: $19.76 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2007 Annotation: Haroun Soussan, narrator of Outcast and a Jewish convert to Islam, is a civil engineer and historian who's just completed his life's work, The Jews and History. The book opens with him getting an award from Saddam Hussein during the time of the Iran-Iraq war. Written in the form of an autobiography, the narrative moves in and out of the present, the recent, and more distant past, providing a unique and intimate chronicle of Iraq's contemporary political history. Shimon Ballas was born in Baghdad in 1930 and immigrated to Israel in 1951. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Jewish - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.01" W x 7.28" (0.48 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Haroun Soussan, narrator of Outcast and a Jewish convert to Islam, is a civil engineer and historian who's just completed his life's work, The Jews and History. The book opens with him getting an award from Saddam Hussein during the time of the Iran-Iraq war. Written in the form of an autobiography, the narrative moves in and out of the present, the recent, and more distant past, providing a unique and intimate chronicle of Iraq's contemporary political history. Shimon Ballas was born in Baghdad in 1930 and immigrated to Israel in 1951. |