This is the author’s second novel and deals with a controversial topic and one that baffles so many Westerner’s to-day, the decision of an intelligent, educated Iraqi Bedouin to become a terrorist. This political thriller is set in Iraq as the unnamed young man tell his story from returning to his tiny backward Iraqi village after the US bombing closed the Baghdad university to when GI’s break into his family’s home and humiliate his father. He changes from an empathetic, violence-averse young man to a hate-filled radical and resolves to fight back and to seek revenge. The powerful message in this book is how the invasion of Iraq has brutalised both the Iraqis and the Americans.
"The author, a former Algerian army officer has written a important and disturbing novel".
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