Posts Tagged with ‘Fiction:Iraq’
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Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk — Bravo Squad Brought Home
02 Jan 2014Ben Fountain’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2012) is one hell of a good book –in conception, language, characters and…
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Contemporary Iraqi Fiction
25 Apr 2011A book of contemporary writers from Iraq should be a welcome corrective to the bias our current notions of Iraq…
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The Long Way Back by Fuad al-Takarli: A Novel from Iraq
17 Apr 2011The ascension of Saddam Hussein to the peak of Iraqi power began in 1958 when a coup led by Brigadier…
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The Last of the Angels by Fadhil al-Azzawi, Iraq
29 Mar 2011Fadhil al-Azzawi’s 1992 The Last of the Angels while not a particularly long book (275 pages in the Free Press…
