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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 9 books in this booklist
£14.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781649032850 | ISBN 10: 1649032854
NAMED ONE OF '51 FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023' (WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS) LONGLISTED FOR THE BRIDPORT NOVEL AWARD In beautifully rendered prose, a mother and a daughter struggle as outsiders in Baghdad and London in this interge ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781905583775 | ISBN 10: 190558377x
Chess-playing people-traffickers, suicidal photographers, absurdist sound sculptors, cat-loving rebel sympathisers, murderous storytellers... The characters in Hassan Blasim’s debut novel are not the inventions of a wild imagination, but real ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786074867 | ISBN 10: 1786074869
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION 2018 For fans of The Kite Runner comes this remarkable debut, the number one bestselling title in Iraq, Dubai and the UAE. It's 1991 and the Gulf War is raging. Two girls, h ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780857056801 | ISBN 10: 0857056808
Translated from the Arabic by Luke Leafgren. On the third day of Ramadan, the village wakes to find the severed heads of nine of its sons stacked in banana crates by the bus stop. One of them belonged to one of the most wanted men in Iraq ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786073976 | ISBN 10: 1786073978
A satirical reimagining of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein set in war-torn Baghdad. SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018 WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION From the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Bag ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781551526065 | ISBN 10: 1551526069
A Globe 100 Best Book of the Year Lambda Literary Award winner The debut book by Hasan Namir is a revelatory novel about being queer and Muslim, set in war-torn Iraq in 2003. Ramy is a closeted university student whose parents have died ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781905583669 | ISBN 10: 1905583664
Featuring Anoud, Hassan Abdulrazzak, Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Zhraa Alhaboby, Ali Bader, Hassan Blasim, Mortada Gzar, Jalal Hasan, Diaa Jubaili & Khalid Kaki Iraq + 100 poses a question to ten Iraqi writers: what might your country look like in t ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781859641255 | ISBN 10: 1859641253
Iraqi Kurdistan at the turn of the twenty-first century is a territory ruled by strongmen, revolutionaries, fixers, bureaucrats and the “Barons” who control everything from livestock and land to Kurdish cultural life. Defying the absolut ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781905583256 | ISBN 10: 1905583257
From hostage-video makers in Baghdad, to human trafficking in the forests of Serbia, institutionalised paranoia in the Saddam years, to the nightmares of an exile trying to embrace a new life in Amsterdam... Blasims stories present an uncompromising ... more
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