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The corpse exhibitionḤasan Balāsim

The corpse exhibition

2014196 pages
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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…

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  • Other · English · 2014
    Penguin Books · 196 pages · 9780143123262
Iraq War, 2003-2011Translations into EnglishFictionFICTION / Short Stories (single author)FICTION / LiteraryFiction, short stories (single author)Iraq war, 2003-2011, fictionGuerre en Irak, 2003-2011