The Corpse Exhibition by Hassan Blasim

The Corpse Exhibition by Hassan Blasim

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.

HASSAN BLASIM is an Iraq-born film director and writer who has been dubbed probably the best living writer of Arabic fiction by The Guardian. He is the author of a number of award-winning books, including The Corpse Exhibition and The Iraqi Christ, which won the Independent Foreign Fiction Award in 2014, making Blasim the first Arabic writer to do so. He currently resides in Finland.

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ISBN 13	9780143123262
ISBN 10	0143123262
Title	The Corpse Exhibition
Author	Hassan Blasim
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2014-02-05
Number of pages	208
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