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 to forge
his own path. But the circumstances of history dictate otherwise.
Saddam Hussein's dictatorship and the economic sanctions of the
1990s destroy the socioeconomic fabric of society. The 2003
invasion and military occupation unleash sectarian violence.
Corpses pile up, and Jawad returns to the inevitable washing and
shrouding. Trained as an artist to shape materials to represent
life aesthetically, he now must contemplate how death shapes daily
life and the bodies of Baghdad's inhabitants. Through the struggles
of a single desperate family, Sinan Antoon's novel shows us the
heart of Iraq's complex and violent recent history. Descending into
the underworld where the borders between life and death are blurred
and where there is no refuge from unending nightmares, Antoon limns
a world of great sorrows, a world where the winds wail.
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