Corpse Exhibition And Other Stories of Iraq

Name: Corpse Exhibition And Other Stories of Iraq
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ISBN: 9780143123262

ISBN-10: 0143123262

ISBN-13: 9780143123262

Edition: 2014

Authors: Hassan Blasim, Jonathan Wright

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An explosive new voice in fiction emerges from Iraq in this blistering debut by "perhaps the best writer of Arabic fiction alive" ( The Guardian ) The first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspective, The Corpse Exhibition 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, Hassan Blasim 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…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/5/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.09" wide x 7.74" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.374
Language: English