Publisher | Pantheon Books |
ISBN 13 | 9781101870471 |
Book Description | From the bestselling author of republic of fear here is a gritty and unflinching novel about iraqi failure in the wake of the 2003 american invasion as seen through the eyes of a shiite militiaman whose participation in the execution of saddam hussein changes his life in ways he could never have anticipated when the nameless narrator stumbles upon a corpse on april 10 2003 the day of the fall of saddam hussein he finds himself swept up in the tumultuous politics of the american occupation and is taken on a journey that concludes with the discovery of what happened to his father who disappeared into the tyrants gulag in 1991 when he was a child his questions about his father were ignored by his mother and his uncle in whose house he was raised |
Language | English |
Author | Kanan Makiya |
Edition Number | 1 |
Publication Date | 3/15/2016 |
Number of Pages | 336 |
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