The Traveler and the Innkeeper

by Fadhil al-Azzawi

From the Iraqi author of Cell Block Five . This timely, elegant novel's hero is an Iraqi secret police inspector who routinely uses enhanced interrogation techniques, which even he considers torture. Convinced that he is protecting society from anarchy, he is at peace with the world until ordered to interrogate a childhood friend, a journalist with possible links to violent subversives. Then he falls in love with his friend's wife. The plot of this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9774164628
• ISBN13: 9789774164620
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 8.1"