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The Corpse Exhibition: And Other Stories of Iraq by Hassan Blasim is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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An explosive new voice in fiction emerges from Iraq in this blistering debut by perhaps the best writer of Arabic fiction alive” (The Guardian) 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, but also of madmen and prophets, angels and djinni, sorcerers and spirits. Blending shocking realism with flights of fantasy, Hassan Blasim 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.

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Author

Hassan Blasim

Publisher

Penguin Group US

Published

2014

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

3.92 / 5 (871 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13