A bold, imaginative collection of short stories set in Southern Iraq from prolific, awardwinning novelist Diaa Jubaili. Influenced in turn by the long tradition of Arabic folktales and the magical realism of Latin America, the stories in No Windmills in Basra reflect a reality tinged by the citys history with war. Yet the fantastic and playful peek through, offering an astounding breadth of images in only a few lines per story. In Mubarak, a security guard for a chicken plant discovers his own wings after a bomb explosion. In The Taste of Death, longburied Iraqi and Iranian soldiers rise from their unmarked graves, dissatisfied with the landscapes returning verdancy. Set in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, where the author still lives, these fleeting stories oscillate between whimsy and tragedy.

Binding: Paperback;210 pages; Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing; Classification: FYB; Weight: 364 g; Dimensions: 127 x 203 x 15

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