The Bookseller’s Murder
admin_omar2023-04-14T23:30:18+00:00(The Bookseller's Murder) is a novel written by the Iraqi novelist and journalist Saad Muhammad Rahim, published by Sutoor Publishing House (Baghdad: 2016) and shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) 2017.The novel revolves around Mahmud Al-Marzuq, an Iraqi intellectual leftist bookseller in Baquba City who witnessed many events, conflicts and transformations happened inside and outside Iraq from the 1960s until his accidental assassination during the political and security anarchy in Iraq after 2003. Al-Marzuq represents the Iraqi intellectuals who were burdened with the worries of life and deprived of the sense of the least freedom and peace during [Read More]