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An inventory of the General Security headquarters in central Baghdad reveals an obscure manuscript. Written by a young man in detention, the prose moves from prison life, to adolescent memories, to frightening hallucinations, and what emerges is a portrait of life in Saddam Husseins Iraq.In the tradition of Kafkas or Orwells offers insight into life under an oppressive political regime and how that oppression works. This is a stunning debut by a major young Iraqi writer-in-exile. has been published in leading international journals and has co-directed an acclaimed documentary about Iraq under US occupation.