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The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq

Jonathan Wright

3.9/5 ( ratings)

This blistering debut by "perhaps the best writer of Arabic fiction alive” is the first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspective. Showing 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.

Pages: 196

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Books

Release: February 05, 2014

ISBN: 0143123262

ISBN 13: 9780143123262

The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq

Jonathan Wright

3.9/5 ( ratings)

This blistering debut by "perhaps the best writer of Arabic fiction alive” is the first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspective. Showing 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.

Pages: 196

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Books

Release: February 05, 2014

ISBN: 0143123262

ISBN 13: 9780143123262

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