An Iraqi in Paris
'It is a wonderful text. Full of life and art. An autobiography full of humour, irony, noblesse and sadness. It reminds me of George Orwell's great book Down and Out in Paris and London' Alaa Al Aswany, author of The Yacoubian Building. A forgiving and powerful book Times Literary Supplement, London. Startlingly funny ... always witty and humane -- Boyd Tonkin The Independent 'A cinematographic odyssey. At once amusing and touching, Samuel Shimon lets his gaze travel with a camera's precision' Le monde des livres, Paris Throughout this careening, fast-paced, episodic narrative, Shimon never loses his poignant sense of humour. He consistently folds the absurdity of political violence into the intimacy of human relations' Daily Star, Beirut A cunningly iconoclastic storyteller... with a keenly cinematographic and unflinching eye for detail... a relentless raconteur -- Anton Shammas