Oh Mary

The Iraqi novelist and poet Sinan Antoun in his third novel addresses the thorny questions faced by minorities in current Iraq, to tell us through the biography of Yusuf - (who refuses migration and leaving the house he built) - as well as through the biography of Maha - (who found herself a migrant within her country and is waiting for her papers to leave Iraq permanently) - some of the pains of the Iraqi people, and what it raises of questions about the past and the present, that is, between memory and the present.