Elvis Is Titanic: Classroom Tales from the Other Iraq
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Book Overview
In the spring of 2005, twenty-five-year-old Rhodes Scholar Ian Klaus took a semester-long appointment at Salahaddin University in Arbil, the largest city in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Officially he... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0307264564
ISBN13:9780307264565
Release Date:August 2007
Publisher:Alfred A. Knopf
Length:240 Pages
Weight:2.60 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 8.6"
Customer Reviews
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Elvis Is Titanic Is a Great Read
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
A fresh and remarkably insightful look at what's going on in the Kurdish section of Iraq through the eyes and writing of a fresh and insightful young man for whom we can credit courage, respect and talent. His characters are real and interesting, as is he and the manner in which he shares with us his experiences with them. We should be reading more in the future from Ian Klaus.
Highly recommended
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
This is an excellent book: intelligent, incisive and entertaining. I learnt a lot about Iraqi Kurdistan (a part of Iraq we usually don't hear so much about), but also about American culture and values. In fact, it is the interplay between American values and how they are received in Kurdistan that makes this book so interesting. Plus, many of the classroom stories are just hilarious...
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