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Widely-celebrated author Sinan Antoon's fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi scholar earning his doctorate at Harvard, who is hired by filmmakers to help document the devastation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. During the excursion, Nameer ventures to al-Mutanabbi street in Baghdad, famed for its bookshops, and encounters Wadood, an eccentric bookseller who is trying to catalogue everything destroyed by war, from objects, buildings, books and manuscripts, flora and fauna, to humans.

London, 1941. Livy makes her way through Blitz-torn London to the Mirrormakers’ Club, the only place that makes her feels safe, where she finds herself drawn into the mystery of a missing diamond and torn between two men with competing claims on her. London, 1841. Charlotte is helped from the scene of an accident by a man who shows her a building he is working on and whose kindness unlocks a hope she has long kept buried. But that man is not her husband.

Recopilación privada; ajuste de cuentas con una madre desesperada y desesperante; desmontaje de una vida que va de la simbiosis al enfrentamiento, de la huida de la casa familiar a la clandestinidad revolucionaria, de la migración al descubrimiento de sí a través de la escritura, El corazón del daño es un dispositivo literario abierto y complejo que busca, en palabras de su autora, ser fielmente "un censo de escenas ilegibles".