The Corpse Washer

by Sinan Antoon

Book Overview

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 instead to become a sculptor, to celebrate life rather than tend to death. He enters Baghdad's Academy of Fine Arts in the late 1980s,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300205643
• ISBN13: 9780300205640
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.8" x 7.7"