The Rope: A Novel

The Rope: A Novel

From the best-selling author of Republic of Fear, here is a gritty and unflinching novel about Iraqi failure in the wake of the 2003 American invasion, as seen through the eyes of a Shiâ€˜ite militiaman whose participation in the execution of Saddam Hussein changes his life in ways he could never have anticipated.
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When the nameless narrator stumbles upon a corpse on April 10, 2003, the day of the fall of Saddam Hussein, he finds himself swept up in the tumultuous politics of the American occupation and is taken on a journey that concludes with the discovery of what happened to his father, who disappeared into the Tyrantâ€™s gulag in 1991. When he was a child, his questions about his father were ignored by his mother and his uncle, in whose house he was raised. Older now, he is fighting in his uncleâ€™s Army of the Awaited One, which is leading an insurrection against the Occupier. He slowly begins to piece together clues about his fatherâ€™s fate, which turns out to be intertwined with that of the mysterious corpse. But not until the last hour before the Tyrantâ€™s execution is the narrator given the final piece of the puzzleâ€”from Saddam Hussein himself.
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The Rope is both a powerful examination of the birth of sectarian politics out of a legacy of betrayal, victimhood, secrecy, and loss, and an enduring story about the haste with which identity is cobbled together and then undone. Told with fearless honesty and searing intensity, The Rope will haunt its readers long after they finish the final page.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Pantheon
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-03-15
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Pantheon
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-03-15
Format	Kindle eBook

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