The Sirens of Baghdad
  • Published: 1 July 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099513230
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $50.00
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A strikingly powerful novel exploring the motivations of a suicide bomber in Iraq. By the IMPAC shortlisted author of The Swallows of Kabul and The Attack.

Forced to leave the University of Baghdad when the Americans invade Iraq, a young man returns home to his small desert village, where he witnesses three unspeakable acts of violence committed by American soldiers. Consumed by a desire for revenge, the youth returns to the city where is he is taken in by a radical group. Before long, he finds himself part of a terrorist operation which will take him to London. But as the time to board the plane draws near, he struggles to reconcile himself to his mission.
  • Published: 1 July 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099513230
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $50.00
Categories:

About the author

Yasmina Khadra

Yasmina Khadra is the nom de plume of the Algerian army officer, Mohammed Moulessehoul, who took a feminine pseudonym to avoid submitting his manuscripts for approval by the army. He is the author of The Attack, Swallows of Kabul, In the Name of God and Wolf Dreams.

portrait photo of Yasmina Khadra

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Praise for The Sirens of Baghdad

Expertly evokes an urban atmosphere of paranoia and random destruction

Guardian

Remarkable...horrifying and genuinely illuminating...essential reading for anyone who wants to understand Iraq, but also an incredibly powerful piece of fiction

The Times

Intoxicating, utterly thrilling. It is not an apology for terrorism, but a provocative explanation that will bring the Iraqi experience in terrifying detail to western bedside tables

New Statesman

A sad and important book

Financial Times

Khadra draws the moods and motives of his village lad-turned-apprentice jihadi with engrossing power... lets you taste the sand, dust and blood - and most of all, the despair... In his own unsettling way, Yasmina Khadra offers the kind of truth that only well-wrought fiction tells

Boyd Tonkin, Independent

One of the most important books to be published in Europe this year

Independent