The Corpse Exhibition: And Other Stories of Iraq
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A blistering debut that does for the Iraqi perspective on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan what Phil Klay’s Redeployment does for the American perspective
The first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspectiveby an explosive new voice hailed as perhaps the best writer of Arabic fiction alive” (The Guardian)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, 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.
The first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspectiveby an explosive new voice hailed as perhaps the best writer of Arabic fiction alive” (The Guardian)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, 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.
Info
ISBN: 9780143123262
Published Date: February 5, 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Page Count: 196
Size: 7.78" l x 5.00" w x 0.56" h
Category
Fiction