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The Book of Collateral Damage by Sinan Antoon; Jonathan Wright (Translator)
Category: History | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
Widely praised in the Arab world, Sinan Antoon's fourth and most sophisticated novel follows an Iraqi academic, Nameer, who meets an antiquarian bookseller, Wadood, in a Baghdad market. Nameer becomes captivated by Wadood's obsession with cataloging everything that the 2003 invasion of their country des ...Show more
The Book of Disappearance - A Novel by Ibtisam Azem; Sinan Antoon (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Middle East Literature in Translation Ser.
What if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? What would happen next? How would Israelis react? These unsettling questions are posed in Azem's powerfully imaginative novel. Set in contemporary Tel Aviv forty eight hours after Israelis discover all their Palestinian neighbors have va ...Show more
The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Acclaimed and celebrated in the Arab world for its vivid portrait of Iraq, this heartbreaking novel confronts the war-torn nation's horrifying recent history Young Jawad, born to a traditional Shi'ite family of corpse washers and shrouders in Baghdad, decides to abandon the family tradition, choosing in ...Show more
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