Other people’s humiliation and suffering sometimes hurt as deeply as their own. The two heroes of Andrey Ostalsky’s new novel — two journalists, the American George and the Russian Georgy — have to observe Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship from the inside for many years.
Other people’s humiliation and suffering sometimes hurt as deeply as their own. The two heroes of Andrey Ostalsky’s new novel — two journalists, the American George and the Russian Georgy — have to observe Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship from the inside for many years. A regime that has set as its main goal the trampling of human dignity, the humiliation and destruction of people who accidentally or deliberately stand in its way. The terrible truth about «Saddamism» is presented in «The Gods of Baghdad» with a rare shrillness that makes the reader keenly, almost physically, sympathize with the characters.
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