1. Sirens of Baghdad and The Attack by Yasmina Khadra
... he thought. In the beginning of the novel, the surgeon is busy with his work when a bomb goes off in a local restaurant, which causes panic in the city as six people are severely injured and eleven children are killed. One of the people who got caught in the blast turned out to be Amin Jaafari's wife. The most important person in his life, the direct link to his psychological state is ... gets an incredible feeling for what it must be like to be on both sides of the conflict; how senseless and yet in some bizarre way also perfectly logical – the struggle and suffering is for both Isra...
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