La caída de Bagdad

A masterpiece of literary reporting on the experience of ordinary Iraqis living the epilogue of Saddam Hussein's regime. It is an ardently politicized issue, and as a result, a thick propaganda fog, both from war supporters and their adversaries, at the time obscured the reality of what the Iraqi people were forced to endure. The author follows a remarkable and diverse group of Iraqis through an extraordinary time: from the omnipresent fear under Saddam's brutal and Orwellian boot and the surreal atmosphere of Baghdad before the invasion to the disastrous and poorly planned assumption. of power and its fruits on the part of the North American army, going through the outbreak of war. An amazing portrait of humanity in extreme situations; a work of great sagacity, empathy and moral clarity, which we rescue with a prologue written for the occasion by the Brazilian journalist Carol Pires.