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Beverly
Sep 22, 2015 rated it really liked it
A harrowing enlightening morally scathing novel that examines the time in Iraq between Saddam Hussein’s downfall (2003) and his execution (2006) through the lens of a nameless fictional Shiite militiaman.
The reader will feel the anguish and frustration of the narrator as he moves for a state of unknowing naivety to awareness of how the sectarian violence is hindering the concept of a democratic Iraq and as his questions goes unanswered regarding his father’s disappearance in 1991 during the Sad
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Tony
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