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Basrayatha: The Story of a City
Basrayathais a literary tribute by author Muhammad Khudayyir to the city of hisbirth, Basra, on the Shatt al-Arab waterway in southern Iraq.
Just as a city s inhabitants differ from outsiders through their knowledge of itsstreets and stories, so Khudayyir distinguishes between the real cityof Basra and the imagined city he created through stories, experiences, and folklore.
...morePaperback, 176 pages
Published
April 7th 2008
by Verso
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This book was a real struggle to get through. Maybe if I would have gone in regarding it as a long piece of poetry, I would have had a better time. This is not a book I would ever recommend to students.
This book is so dry, it reads like toast. It was required to read for my bookclub and I started reading it but ended up skimming through it. I think they could have written the book in a more interesting form and made it more like a story and not like a tour guide.
On a sentence level it was beautiful but on a paragraph level it was a slog and on a chapter level it was completely opaque.
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