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Reviewed on April 1, 2017 | Spring Fiction in Translation
In this revealing work from award-winning poet/novelist Antoon (The Corpse Washer), an associate professor of Arabic literature at New York University, Maha and her husband have been forced by the ongoing violence to move into her uncle Youssef's Baghdad home. Maha and Youssef bicker constantly, with Maha accusing Youssef of living in the past and failing to recognize the current pe...Log In or Sign Up to Read More