Rajiv Chandrasekaran talks about his prizewinning account of life in Baghdad's Green Zone.
Guardian Unlimited Books
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, winner of the 2007 Samuel Johnson prize for Imperial Life in the Emerald City, talks to Lindesay Irvine about his tragicomic account of life in post-war Iraq.
He explains how, after working as Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post, he was inspired to write the tragicomic tale of the ill-planned and misconceived efforts by the American-led Coalition Provisional Authority to reconstruct the country, and the strange world of the "Emerald City" - the Green Zone.
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