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Two Lost Souls
A middle-aged Iraqi man is intent on leaving the United States to escape the difficulties of living as a foreigner in the aftermath of the events of September 11th. He meets a beautiful and young American woman in dire need of help. He extends a helping hand to her. This act of kindness leads to an extraordinary and unique love that transforms their lives. "I emphasize that the novel ."" is truly distinguished in its ability to raise questions about topics not tackled by others." Yassin al-Nasir, a critic, Al Adab magazine. "It's an elegy that mourns our desperate time, the time of vicious globalization, whispering and expressing through poetic language our wounds and exile, from the Third World to the capitalist West." Ahmad Mohammad Amin, a novelist and critic, Al ALNAHAR Newspaper. "It's a dramatic and realistic documentation of the state of bitter expulsion from which Iraqi exiles suffer, particularly intellectuals and the politically conscious among them who came to Chicago, the Western city with its deeply-rooted, distinctive cultural traditions." Dr. Assad Mohammad Ali, a critic, Azzaman Newspaper Mahmoud Saeed, a prominent Iraqi novelist, has written more than 20 novels and short story collections. His first collection of short stories was published in 1957. The first military-Baathist Iraqi government seized two of his novels in 1963, one of which was a manuscript in the possession of the Iraqi Writers Union. The Iraqi authorities also destroyed another of Saeed's novels. Saeed was imprisoned several times and was frequently interrogated by the Iraqi police. He eventually left Iraq in 1985 after the authorities banned the publication of some of his novels.
160 pages, Paperback
First published February 28, 2006
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About the author
Mahmoud Saeed
11 books8 followersMahmoud Saeed was an Iraqi-born American novelist.
Born in Mosul, Saeed has written more than twenty novels and short story collections, and hundreds of articles. He started writing short stories at an early age. He wrote an award-winning short story in the Newspaper "Fata Al-Iraq, Newspaper" in 1956. He published a collection of short stories, Port Saeed and other stories, in 1957. In 1963, the government after 1963 coup destroyed his two novel manuscripts one under review, "The Old Case" and "The Strike".
Government censorship prevented his novel Rhythm and Obsession from being published in 1968, and banned his novel Rue Ben Barka, in 1970. Rue Ben Barka was published fifteen years later in Egypt 1985, Jordan 1992/1993, and Beirut in 1997. Authorities banned the publication of any book written by the author from 1963 to 2008. His most important novels after Ben Barka Lane are The Girls of Jacob, The World Through the Angel's Eyes, I am the One Who Saw, and Trilogy of Chicago.
Born in Mosul, Saeed has written more than twenty novels and short story collections, and hundreds of articles. He started writing short stories at an early age. He wrote an award-winning short story in the Newspaper "Fata Al-Iraq, Newspaper" in 1956. He published a collection of short stories, Port Saeed and other stories, in 1957. In 1963, the government after 1963 coup destroyed his two novel manuscripts one under review, "The Old Case" and "The Strike".
Government censorship prevented his novel Rhythm and Obsession from being published in 1968, and banned his novel Rue Ben Barka, in 1970. Rue Ben Barka was published fifteen years later in Egypt 1985, Jordan 1992/1993, and Beirut in 1997. Authorities banned the publication of any book written by the author from 1963 to 2008. His most important novels after Ben Barka Lane are The Girls of Jacob, The World Through the Angel's Eyes, I am the One Who Saw, and Trilogy of Chicago.
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