The Baghdad Nostradamus and Scheherazade

About this book

Set in Iraq during the American occupation after 2003, this magical-realist novel blends symbolism, fantasy and psychological tension. Scheherazade has been detained by the occupying army and left so traumatized that she can no longer stand. Nawas, a Baghdad man with a rare psychological condition, sees the date on which every person he encounters will die. With both author and narrator entangled in the events, the novel uses its two central figures to explore violence, fate, memory and the struggle to preserve human dignity.