Saddam novel published in Japan

A novel penned by Saddam Hussein in the run-up to the 2003 invasion that ended his dictatorship will be released for the first time abroad in a Japanese translation, the publisher said on Friday. The heavily symbolic novel, about an outsider who plots to overthrow a town before eventually being defeated by an Arab warrior, has only been released in Iraq, but with its author’s name removed.

The book, whose Arabic title translates as Damned One, Get Out of Here, will go on sale in Japan under the title The Dance of the Devil on May 19. Translated by a Japanese journalist, it will cost JPY 1,500 (EUR (EUR 10.50).

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