{"product_id":"9780143123262","title":"The Corpse Exhibition: And Other Stories of Iraq","description":"\u003cp\u003eA blistering debut that does for the Iraqi perspective on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan what Phil Klay’s \u003ci\u003eRedeployment \u003c\/i\u003edoes for the American perspective\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] wonderful collection.” —George Saunders, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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” (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e)—\u003ci\u003eThe Corpse Exhibition \u003c\/i\u003eshows 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlending shocking realism with flights of fantasy, \u003ci\u003eThe Corpse Exhibition\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022713733360,"sku":"9780143123262","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780143123262_p0.jpg?v=1769895416","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780143123262","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}