Wendell Steavenson – författare
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8 produkter
Weight of a Mustard Seed
The Intimate Story of an Iraqi General and His Family During Thirty Years of Tyranny
E-bok, 2009
41 kr
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A journalist investigates what could motivate someone to serve a monstrous regime like Saddam Huseein''s Iraq in this "masterly and elegantly told story that weaves together the Iraqi past and present" (New York Times Book Review, A Notable Book of the Year)."Steavenson is a talented writer and her …
Circling the Square
Stories from the Egyptian Revolution
E-bok, 2015
77 kr
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What happened to the promise of Tahrir Square and the Arab Spring?On January 25, 2011, the world was watching Cairo. Egyptians of every stripe came together in Tahrir Square to protest Hosni Mubarak''s three decades of brutal rule. After many hopeful, turbulent years, however, Egypt seems to be …
Paris Metro
A Novel
Häftad, 2019
334 kr
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From the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 to the terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015, Paris Metro is a story of East meets West. Kit, a reporter, has spent several years after 9/11 living in the Middle East, working as a correspondent for an American newspaper. Along the way she falls in love and …
Margot
A Novel
Inbunden, 2023
322 kr
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It’s the mid-1950s and Margot Thornsen is growing up between a Park Avenue apartment in New York City and her family’s sumptuous Oyster Bay estate, as the presumed heir to her late grandfather’s steel fortune. Stuck in the mores and bores of WASP society with its cocktail parties and white-gloved …
Stories I Stole
Häftad, 2003
115 kr
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Shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Book Award 2003Longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2002Fed up with working for Time magazine in London, Steavenson moved to Georgia on a whim. Stories I Stole relates her time there in twenty vodka-fuelled episodes drawn from all over the country - tales of …
