Shalash the Iraqi Format:Paperback but large parts are in

but large parts are in prose form and towards the end it even takes on the structure of an absurdist play

What are little girls made of

white middle-class people to comfortably indulge both their racism and their classism without ever having to admit to the existence of either

Long before the year is up

Shalash the Iraqi Format:Paperback but large parts are inPopulated by a cast of imagined con artists, holy fools, drag queens, and partisans as well as some very factual politicians, priests, and generals this novel started life as a pseudonymous blog written live by Shalash during and after the Second Iraq War. Never written to be published, all but lost save for disintegrating printouts treasured by its devotees, Shalash the Iraqi is here presented in its first authorised translation, with the blessing