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Escape from Baghdad!

by Saad Z. Hossain
Escape from Baghdad! Unnamed. Mar. 2015. 284p. ISBN 9781939419248. pap. $16. F
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We've seen any number of heartbreakingly beautiful novels and story collections on the current conflict in the Middle East, but this isn't one of them. Instead, it's a scathingly funny account of floundering black marketeers Dagr and Kinza, who find themselves responsible for the man who was once Saddam Hussein's lead torturer. Though Kinza's thoughts are at first bloody—"We should kill him…. But nothing too orthodox"—ultimately they enlist the help of a U.S. Marine to smuggle him out of Baghdad.
VERDICT A Bangladesh-based author of fantasy, sf, and (no surprise here) black comedy, Hossain daringly shows us that war isn't just hell but absolutely insane.
Reviewed by Barbara Hoffert , Mar 01, 2015
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