The Corpse Exhibition: And Other Stories of Iraq

<b><b>A blistering debut that does for the Iraqi perspective on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan what Phil Klay's <i>Redeployment </i>does for the American perspective<br><br></b></b>The first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspective - by an explosive new voice hailed as &quot;perhaps the best writer of Arabic fiction alive&quot; (<i>The Guardian</i>) - <i>The Corpse Exhibition </i>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.<br><br> Blending shocking realism with flights of fantasy, <i>The Corpse Exhibition</i> 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.