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The corpse exhibition and other stories of Iraq /

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 befo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Balāsim, Ḥasan (Author)
Other Authors: Wright, Jonathan, 1953- (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Books, 2014.
Subjects:
Balāsim, Ḥasan > Translations into English.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Fiction.
FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
FICTION / Literary.
Table of Contents:
  • The corpse exhibition
  • The killers and the compass
  • The green zone rabbit
  • An army newspaper
  • Crosswords
  • The hole
  • The madman of Freedom Square
  • The Iraqi Christ
  • A thousand and one knives
  • The composer
  • The song of the goats
  • The reality and the record
  • That inauspicious smile
  • The nightmares of Carlos Fuentes.