I'jaam

Name: I'jaam
Author: Sinan Antoon

by Sinan Antoon

Experimental narrative fragmenting Arabic language and identity in diaspora

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Sinan Antoon

Iraqi poet, novelist, and translator whose The Corpse Washer gives a devastating account of post-invasion Iraq through the eyes of a man who washes the dead. He is the leading Iraqi literary voice of his generation.

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