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Dear List Members:
Twenty Cigarettes in Nasiriyah, my translation of a memoir about the suicide
bombing of the Italian carabinieri headquarters in Nasiriyah, Iraq, in 2003
has just been published.
Gravely injured in the attack is a young, brash filmmaker, Aureliano Amadei,
who is in Iraq to scout locations for a movie. Amadei uses the long, painful
months of his recovery to reflect upon the circumstances that took him to
Nasiriyah, the contradictions of the Italian military presence in Iraq, his
country’s response to the “Nasiryah Massacre” and its embrace of the “Heroes
of Nasiriyah,” and the official investigations into security failures at the
Italian base that tragic day.
For the moment, I’m seeing it only on Amazon (the U.S. site is here -
http://www.amazon.com/Twenty-Cigarettes-Nasiriyah-A-Memoir/dp/0989980006,
but it’s available at amazon.co.uk and amazon.it as well). In the next
little while it will also appear elsewhere.
A couple of pre-press comments:
"One of the best books about the modern experience of war, from a victim’s
perspective, that I have read.... This is an intensely readable book." (Dr.
Frank Huyler, Albuquerque, New Mexico, emergency physician and author of The
Blood of Strangers: Stories from Emergency Medicine and a novel, The Laws of
Invisible Things.)
"In a clear, compelling voice, Amadei and Trento take us beyond the rhetoric
of war to all the complexities of the actual experience. The layers of
searing pain, of misperception, of the invisibility of individuals, of
kindness and empathy that challenge long-held beliefs, of official hypocrisy
and public myopia and—most improbably—the moments of humor, make for a great
read." (Ginny Morrison, Mediators Beyond Borders)
Cheers,
Wendell Ricketts
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