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The Book of Collateral Damage
The Book of Collateral Damage | Sinan Antoon
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Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory Widely-celebrated author Sinan Antoon’s fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi scholar earning his doctorate at Harvard, who is hired by filmmakers to help document the devastation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. During the excursion, Nameer ventures to al-Mutanabbi street in Baghdad, famed for its bookshops, and encounters Wadood, an eccentric bookseller who is trying to catalogue everything destroyed by war, from objects, buildings, books and manuscripts, flora and fauna, to humans. Entrusted with the catalogue and obsessed with Wadood’s project, Nameer finds life in New York movingly intertwined with fragments from his homeland’s past and its present—destroyed letters, verses, epigraphs, and anecdotes—in this stylistically ambitious panorama of the wreckage of war and the power of memory.
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#BTBA2020 normally announces the winners with an in-person party for locals only, but thanks to quarantine, they are now doing a zoom party that EVERYONE can attend! They'll be doing live/recorded readings from all the shortlisted works, for anyone interested in getting a better idea of what sort of literature usually makes the BTBA list (BTBA twitter also has summaries of the works, FYI). Sign up is here: https://bit.ly/36AmUG4

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I had to compile a report for work & the pup got antsy so I missed the readings. Oh well! Maybe I'll catch the winners announcement. 4y
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick @ulyssesartmiller @Bookwyrm42 @sydneyerin @Jennifer3 I am not a poetry reader so I only looked at the fiction descriptions. The one I'm most interested in is the tagged. Are you pulling for any particular book to win? 4y
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MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I‘ve added over half of each longlist to my TBR, honestly. 😅 They all sound intriguing, but if I had to choose a winner from the fiction category, I‘d have to choose Stalingrad. 4y
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick @Bookwyrm42 It sounded interesting but I saw that it's over 1,000 pages and I just won't do that in June. 🤣 4y
MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Fair point! I‘m terrible about not paying attention before buying to how long books are, or if they‘re part of a series, and I definitely pay for it many a time. 😅 4y
sydneyerin @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Several of the options sound good but I think I'm most interested in Territory of Light or Die, My Love. Although Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead sounds good too. Haha I'll probably read all three eventually regardless 😄 4y
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If you‘ve read this, let me know what you think!

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