| This Side of Innocence Contributor(s): Al-Daif, Rachid (Author) |
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ISBN: 1566563836 ISBN-13: 9781566563833 Publisher: Interlink Books OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2001 Annotation: This Side of Innocence, tells the story of one man's run-in with the secret police of his unnamed, war-torn country. The novel's real story, however, is about the deeply obscure events of a personal encounter with tyranny -- the tyranny of the instability and chaos of a country at war with itself and consequently preyed upon by internal and external threes. In the end, we are left with the story of how one man (or country) can, innocently, invent his own executioner. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00011236 |
| Series: Emerging Voices (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 5.29" W x 8.02" (0.40 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "'Who tore down the picture?' That is the whole story, from A to Z. They wanted to know who tore down the picture." So opens Rashid Al-Daif's This Side of Innocence, the story of one man's run-in with the secret police of his unnamed, war-torn country. In ironic contrast with Al-Daif's typically clear and frank literary style, this unreliable, "innocent" narrator relates much more than an A-to-Z tale. The novel's real story is about the deeply obscure events of a personal encounter with tyranny--the tyranny of the instability and chaos of a country at war with itself and consequently preyed upon by internal and external forces. In the end, we are left with the story of how one man (or country) can innocently invent his own executioner. |