The Corpse Washer

Young Jawad, born to a 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 1980s, determined to forge his own path. But the circumstances of history dictate otherwise.

• | By (Author): Sinan Antoon
• | Publisher: Yale University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 02, 2014
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 200 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0300205643
• | ISBN-13: 9780300205640