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Red Birds by Mohammed Hanif

You can outsource mass rape. War has been condensed to carpet- bombing followed by dry rations and craft classes for the refugees.

Surreal, incisive. A critique of US foreign policy, of bombing followed by do-gooding told through multiple voices, each playing a role in an essentially absurd drama which, not surprisingly at all, mirrors real life more honestly than one might want it to.