Acclaimed and celebrated in the Arab world for its vivid portrait of Iraq, this heartbreaking novel confronts the war-torn nation\'s horrifying recent history 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 of Fine Arts in the late 1980s, in defiance of his father\'s wishes and determined.
Acclaimed and celebrated in the Arab world for its vivid portrait of Iraq, this heartbreaking novel confronts the war-torn nation\'s horrifying recent history 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
