God 99 / Hassan Blasim ; translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balāsim, Ḥasan, author.

Contributor:

Wright, Jonathan, 1953- translator.

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--Europe--Fiction.

Refugees.

Authors, Iraqi--Fiction.

Authors, Iraqi.

Art and the Internet--Fiction.

Art and the Internet.

Europe.

Genre:

Social problem fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

278 pages ; 20 cm

Other Title:

God ninety-nine

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Comma Press, 2020.

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.

Notes:

First published in Arabic by al-Mutawassit, Milan, 2018.

Translated from the Arabic.

ISBN:

9781905583775

190558377X

OCLC:

1144717029

Publisher Number:

99986728450