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A Slap in the Face by Khider, Abbas
by Khider, Abbas | HC | LikeNew
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780857425355
- Book Title
- Slap in the Face
- Book Series
- The German List Ser.
- Publisher
- Seagull Books
- Item Length
- 0.8 in
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.1 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- General, Literary
- Item Weight
- 12.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 0.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 192 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Seagull Books
ISBN-10
0857425358
ISBN-13
9780857425355
eBay Product ID (ePID)
240243552
Product Key Features
Book Title
Slap in the Face
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Literary
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
The German List Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Item Length
0.8 in
Item Width
0.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2020-438780
TitleLeading
A
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Abbas Khider's novel, A Slap in the Face (Seagull Books, 2019) opens with an intense, and at first impression, violent scene. Karim Mensy, an Iraqi refugee, ties up a German immigration official for the sole reason of having an audience to listen to his hidden story. It is a palpably tense introduction which sets the pace for Karim's narrative unfolding against a backdrop of perpetual injustice, discrimination, exploitation and navigating the trajectories for survival. . . . Khider has written a book that is at once crude and sensitive, interspersed with humour that only lasts a few seconds before the reader realises that the elicited smiles are all at the expense of the oppressed, in this case, the refugees., Khider is a master of the comically grotesque. . . . A Slap in the Face is a vivid and often moving portrayal of the prejudice, economic exploitation and simple unfairness facing those seeking to find a European haven from war and persecution.
Dewey Decimal
833.92
Synopsis
In our era of mass migration, much of it driven by war and its aftermath, A Slap in the Face could not be more timely. It tells the story of Karim, an Iraqi refugee living in Germany whose right to asylum has been revoked in the wake of Saddam Hussein's defeat. But Hussein wasn't the only reason Karim left, and as Abbas Khider unfolds his story, we learn both the secret struggles he faced in his homeland and the battles with prejudice, distrust, poverty, and bureaucracy he has to endure in his attempts to make a new life in Germany. As he erupts in frustration at his caseworker, and finally forces her to listen to his story, we get an account of a contemporary life upended by politics and violence, told with a warmth and humor that, while surprising us, does nothing to lessen the outrages Karim describes., Now in paperback, the touching, timely story of an Iraqi refugee in Germany. In our era of mass migration, much of it driven by war and its aftermath, A Slap in the Face could not be more timely. It tells the story of Karim, an Iraqi refugee living in Germany whose right to asylum has been revoked in the wake of Saddam Hussein's defeat. But Hussein wasn't the only reason Karim left, and as Abbas Khider unfolds his story, we learn both the secret struggles he faced in his homeland and the battles with prejudice, distrust, poverty, and bureaucracy he has to endure in his attempts to make a new life in Germany. As he erupts in frustration at his caseworker and finally forces her to listen to his story, we get an account of a contemporary life upended by politics and violence, told with warmth and humor that, while surprising us, does nothing to lessen the outrages Karim describes.
LC Classification Number
PT2711.H54
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