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The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon

The Corpse Washer

Sinan Antoon

200 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

fiction art historical challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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Young Jawad, born to a traditional Shi'ite family of corpse washers and shrouders in Baghdad, decides to abandon the family tradition, choosing instead to become a sculptor, to celebrate life rather than tend to death. He enters Baghdad’s Academy ...

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