God 99 (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Comma Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2020
Authors:	Hassan Blasim
Translators:	Jonathan Wright
Dimensions:	198 x 128 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-1-905583-77-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Refugees & political asylum
LSN:	1-905583-77-X
Barcode:	9781905583775

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