Damascus - Softcover

David Greig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 057123917X ISBN 13: 9780571239177

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 2007

Synopsis

Welcome to Damascus, the oldest continuously inhabited city on earth, a jewel of the Arab world and the crossroads of the Middle East. Paul is here to sell English language textbooks. It's Valentine's Day and he'd rather be at home with his wife. He begins negotiations with his Syrian contact, Muna. Can he seal the deal? Misunderstandings multiply until their presumptions about one another fall away and new possibilities emerge. In this city of transformations, Paul grapples with language and love, meanings and misconceptions. And as his flight home is delayed by a bomb at Beirut Airport, he begins to wonder - will he ever leave?

About this title

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Thanks to Google Earth and other geovisualization programs, anyone with access to computers and high-speed Internet connections can view urban scenes in a way our forebears could only dream of, with a sometimes illusory sensation of knowing all there is to know about life down below because it can be "seen" in computerized rendering: an unmatched perspective on the workings of cities. The satellite image, however, is a veneer, a pattern, a protective shield that covers strata such as social forces or economic tectonics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 057123917X
• ISBN 13: 9780571239177
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96