Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea

by Dunya Mikhail

Mikhail writes: "Death always looks for us. It comes from beyond the continents. It crosses long distances holding a basket of fire in its hand."
The two halves of Mikhail's book merge past and present in a lyrical memoir that moves between memories of her childhood, her father's death, her Iraqi poet-peers and friends, her job as a journalist for the Baghdad Observer, and culminates with the birth of her daughter Larsa.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811218317
• ISBN13: 9780811218313
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.7"