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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Balāsim, Ḥasan, author.
Imprint:Manchester : Comma Press, 2020.
Description:278 pages ; 20 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12566085
Hidden Bibliographic Details
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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