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Benjamin Buchholz
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November 03, 1975
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While staying in Khartoum last year the lobby of my hotel was liberally sprinkled with very nice oil paintings, all floor-mounted like some sort of temporary bazaar, though without the artist there personally hawking his wares.
The particular piece below intrigued me more than any other and I stopped in front of it at least four or five separate times, contemplating it as a purchase — how to shi...
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One Hundred and One Nights
   3.65 avg rating — 86 ratings
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2011
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Private Soldiers: A Year in Iraq with a Wisconsin National Guard Unit
by Benjamin Buchholz (Goodreads Author), Joseph Streeter , Nathan Olson 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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2007
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Thirteen Stares
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2008
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"After a year in Iraq, U.S. soldier Buchholz wrote One Hundred and One Nights, a novel about daily life in the war-torn country and its undercurrent of violence." ...More
"After a year in Iraq, U.S. soldier Buchholz wrote One Hundred and One Nights, a novel about daily life in the war-torn country and its undercurrent of violence." ...More
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My Thoughts - Abu Saheeh, so he is known, appears in the small border town of Safwan. Under the patronage of a local Sheikh, Abu Saheeh sets up shop as a merchant, and so begin the nightly visitations of a young girl, Layla. Poor and dirty, livel... " Read more of this review » |
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I have not started reading this, but I am considering it for a book club book. It will be a bit strange to read it because the writer is a former high school classmate. Nevertheless, I cannot wait to read it.
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After 13 years in America, Abu Saheeh has returned to his native Iraq, a nation transformed by the American military presence. Alone in a new city, he has exactly what he wants: freedom from his past. Then he meets Layla, a whimsical fourteen-year...
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