New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2019. Widely praised in the Arab world, Sinan Antoon's fourth and most sophisticated novel follows an Iraqi academic, Nameer, who meets an antiquarian bookseller, Wadood, in a Baghdad market. Nameer becomes captivated by Wadood's encyclopedic effort to catalogue everything that the 2003 invasion of their country destroyed, minutes by minutes, piece by piece.