Corpse Exhibition

<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 <p/>[A] wonderful collection. --George Saunders <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/></b></b>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 (<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. <p/> 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.