The first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspective, 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
Un soldado con la capacidad de predecir el futuro se ve chantajeado por un insurgente en el último acto de terror... Un creador de crucigramas sobrevive a un ataque con coche bomba, solo para descubrir que ahora está perseguido por una de sus víctimas... Huyendo de un robo, un comerciante de Bagdad cae en un agujero profundo, en cuyo fondo se encuentra un djinni y el cadáver de un soldado de una guerra completamente diferente... Desde las leyendas del desierto hasta los horrores del bosque, las historias de Blasim combinan lo fantástico con lo cotidiano, lo s... continue
A soldier with the ability to predict the future finds himself blackmailed by an insurgent into the ultimate act of terror… A deviser of crosswords survives a car-bomb attack, only to discover he is now haunted by one of its victims… Fleeing a robbery, a Baghdad shopkeeper falls into a deep hole, at the bottom of which sits a djinni and the corpse of a soldier from a completely different war… From legends of the desert to horrors of the forest, Blasim’s stories blend the fantastic with the everyday, the surreal with the all-too-real. Taking his cues from Kafka, his prose shines a dazzling ligh... continue