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    "description": "Widely-celebrated author Sinan Antoon\u2019s fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi scholar earning his doctorate at Harvard, who is hired by filmmakers to help document the devastation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. During the excursion, Nameer ventures to al-Mutanabbi street in Baghdad, famed for its bookshops, and encounters Wadood, an eccentric bookseller who is trying to catalogue everything destroyed by war, from objects, buildings, books and manuscripts, flora and fauna, to humans.\n \nEntrusted with the catalogue and obsessed with Wadood\u2019s project, Nameer finds life in New York movingly intertwined with fragments from his homeland\u2019s past and its present\u2014destroyed letters, verses, epigraphs, and anecdotes\u2014in this stylistically ambitious panorama of the wreckage of war and the power of memory.\nSinan Antoon is a poet, novelist, and translator, and an associate professor at New York University. Born in Baghdad, he left Iraq after the Gulf War. He is the author of several books, including The Corpse Washer.Jonathan Wright is an award-winning translator of works by authors including Ahmed Saadawi, Saud Alsanousi, and Youssef Ziedan.",
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