Wendell Steavenson

The Weight of a Mustard Seed

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291 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2018
Publication year
2018
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  • Heyder Quliyevshared an impression5 years ago
    👍Worth reading

    This book is highly recommended for everyone who still believes that people lived or might live in prosperity and happiness under despotic dictators. The author also has perfectly highlighted all weaknesses of the human being.

  • Nadhila Rachmishared an impression4 years ago
    👍Worth reading

    Very personal and yet it told us another point of view of the Iraq’s conflict. This time from its own people

Quotes

  • Heyder Quliyevhas quoted5 years ago
    Run! Split up!” But the rest of the prisoners were struck dumb and paralyzed by the authority of the system in which they found themselves shackled (although unshackled) and did not move.
  • Heyder Quliyevhas quoted5 years ago
    Ahmed’s conspiracy theory was wrong, but maybe no more trite than its opposite: that democracy could be imposed by force. It was only the inverse of an opposite set of beliefs, scorn and reaction, like two presidents calling each other “evil.” All of us grow up in a community, a society, a country that feels, to us, safe and familiar; outside, across the sea, somewhere else, reside the dragons of the other. Ahmed had absorbed the mores and opinions of his community: family was honor, Islam was right, the larger world was a conspiracy that kept Muslims and Arabs down
  • Heyder Quliyevhas quoted5 years ago
    If Iraq had taught me anything it was the complexity of reactions to events and ideals and isms contained within each human mind. Iraqis carried the scars and memories of good and bad and mad and sad and bits of Baathism, globs of pride and an inferiority complex; they carried Koranic surahs in their heads along with the precepts of grandfathers, memories of war slogans and the chorus of a Britney Spears song. Fractious, miasmic and changeable: Communist to Baathist. Jingo to war weary. Religious to skeptic. Fanatic to cynic. History doesn’t necessarily progress, and people don’t follow straight-line lives either.

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