Heads Ripe for Plucking

Heads Ripe for PluckingAn Arab tyrant once infamously declared, I see heads that are ripe for plucking. In Mahmoud Al Wardanis novel of tyranny and oppression, an impaled head seeks solace in narrating similar woes it sustained in previous incarnations. Beheadings, both literal and metaphoricaltorture, murder, decapitation, brainwashing, losing ones headare the subject of the six stories that unfold. The narrative takes us from the most archetypal beheading in Arabo Islamic

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