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Literature & Fiction

The Corpse Exhibition: And Other Stories of Iraq

The Corpse Exhibition: And Other Stories of Iraq

A blistering debut that does for the Iraqi perspective on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan what Phil Klayâ€™s Redeployment does for the American perspective

â€œ[A] wonderful collection.â€Â â€”George Saunders, The New York Times Book Review

The first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspectiveâ€”by an explosive new voice hailed as â€œperhaps the best writer of Arabic fiction aliveâ€ (The Guardian)â€”The Corpse ExhibitionÂ shows us the war as we have never seen it before. Here is a world not only of soldiers and assassins, hostages and car bombers, refugees and terrorists, but also of madmen and prophets, angels and djinni, sorcerers and spirits.

Blending shocking realism with flights of fantasy, The Corpse Exhibition offers us a pageant of horrors, as haunting as the photos of Abu Ghraib and as difficult to look away from, but shot through with a gallows humor that yields an unflinching comedy of the macabre. Gripping and hallucinatory, this is a new kind of storytelling forged in the crucible of war.
Country USA
Brand Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Penguin Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780143123262
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2014-02-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780143123262

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