God 99 /

God 99 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Balāsim, Ḥasan, author.
Imprint:	Manchester : Comma Press, 2020.
Description:	278 pages ; 20 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Refugees -- Europe -- Fiction. Authors, Iraqi -- Fiction. Art and the Internet -- Fiction. Authors, Iraqi. Art and the Internet. Refugees. Europe. Social problem fiction. Psychological fiction. Fiction. Social problem fiction. Psychological fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12566085

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Varying Form of Title:	God ninety-nine
Other authors / contributors:	Wright, Jonathan, 1953- translator.
ISBN:	9781905583775 190558377X
Notes:	First published in Arabic by al-Mutawassit, Milan, 2018. Translated from the Arabic.
Summary:	"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-life refugees and people whose lives have been devastated by war. Interviewed by Hassan Owl, an aspiring Iraq-born writer, they become the subjects of an online art project, a blog that blurs the boundaries between fiction and autobiography, reportage and the novel. Framed by an email correspondence with the mysterious Alia, a translator of the Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran, the project leads us through the bars, brothels and bathhouses of Hassan's past and present in a journey of trauma, violence, identity and desire. Taking its conceit from the Islamic tradition that says God has 99 names, the novel trains a kaleidoscopic lens on the multiplicity of experiences behind Europe's so-called 'migrant crisis', and asks how those who have been displaced might find themselves again."--Provided by publisher.

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Summary:	"Chess-playing people-traffickers, suicidal photographers, absurdist sound sculptors, cat-loving rebel sympathisers, murderous storytellers... The characters in Hassan Blasims debut novel are not the inventions of a wild imagination, but real-life refugees and people whose lives have been devastated by war. Interviewed by Hassan Owl, an aspiring Iraq-born writer, they become the subjects of an online art project, a blog that blurs the boundaries between fiction and autobiography, reportage and the novel. Framed by an email correspondence with the mysterious Alia, a translator of the Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran, the project leads us through the bars, brothels and bathhouses of Hassans past and present in a journey of trauma, violence, identity and desire. Taking its conceit from the Islamic tradition that says God has 99 names, the novel trains a kaleidoscopic lens on the multiplicity of experiences behind Europes so-called migrant crisis, and asks how those who have been displaced might find themselves again."--Provided by publisher.
Item Description:	First published in Arabic by al-Mutawassit, Milan, 2018. Translated from the Arabic.
Physical Description:	278 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:	9781905583775 190558377X