The Book of Collateral Damage

Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory

“Formally daring, stylistically inventive, this is Antoon’s most complex work to date.” —Malcolm Forbes, The National

The celebrated author Sinan Antoon’s 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—Mu...