The Corpse Exhibition: And Other Stories of Iraq

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

" A] wonderful collection." --George Saunders, The New York Times Book Review

The first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspective--by 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 02/05/2014
ISBN: 9780143123262
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 7.83h x 5.11w x 0.54d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 12/16/2013
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2013
Booklist 01/01/2014 pg. 39
Library Journal 03/01/2014 pg. 86
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/03/2014 pg. 26