Iraq  100, Hassan Blasim
Iraq  100, Hassan Blasim
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Iraq + 100
The First Anthology of Science Fiction to Have Emerged from Iraq

Author: Hassan Blasim

Narrator: Peter Ganim

Unabridged: 6 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/12/2017


Synopsis

"Peter Ganim was just the right choice to narrate this audiobook" — AudioFile Magazine

A groundbreaking audiobook anthology of science fiction from Iraq that will challenge your perception of what it means to be “The Other.”

This collection of short stories is masterfully edited by Hassan Blasim and features the following authors:

Hassan Blasim (translated by Jonathan Wright)
Ali Bader (translated by Elisabeth Jaquette)
Diaa Jubaili (translated by Andrew Leber)
Mortada Gzar (translated by Katharine Halls)
Zhraa Alhaboby (translated by Emre Bennett)
Khalid Kaki (translated by Adam Talib)
Jalal Hasan (translated by Max Weiss)
Anoud (translated by herself)
Hassan Abdulrazzak (translated by himself)
Ibrahim al-Marashi (translated by himself)

“History is a hostage, but it will bite through the gag you tie around its mouth, bite through and still be heard.”—Operation Daniel

In a calm and serene world, one has the luxury of imagining what the future might look like.

Now try to imagine that future when your way of life has been devastated by forces beyond your control.

Iraq + 100 poses a question to Iraqi authors (those who still live in that nation, and those who have joined the worldwide diaspora): What might your home country look like in the year 2103, a century after a disastrous foreign invasion?

Using science fiction, allegory, and magical realism to challenge the perception of what it means to be “The Other,” this groundbreaking anthology contains stories that are heartbreakingly surreal, and yet utterly recognizable to the human experience.

Though born out of exhaustion, fear, and despair, Iraq + 100 is also fueled by themes of love, family, and endurance, and woven through with a delicate thread of hope for the future.

About Hassan Blasim

Described by The Guardian as “perhaps the greatest writer of Arabic fiction alive," Hassan Blasim is an Iraq-born film director and writer. A multiple PEN Award winner, he is the author of The Corpse Exhibition, which won a number of awards, and The Iraqi Christ, which won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2014, making Blasim the first Arabic writer to win that award. He lives in Finland.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ronald on November 03, 2017

The overall premise on this book ("Iraq + 100 poses a question to contemporary Iraqi writers: what might your home city look like in the year 2103 – exactly 100 years after the disastrous American and British-led invasion of Iraq?") appealed to me - I'm a big fan of speculative fiction and literatur......more

Goodreads review by Noor on September 09, 2017

I received an advanced copy from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. "And to her, it seemed more attractive than anything this artificial world had to offer, this place where everything you touched became obsolete because you touched it, everything you said became a lie bec......more

Goodreads review by Emily on September 06, 2017

Watch a mini-review in my August 2017 wrap up! I received an advanced ebook of this collection from the publisher through NetGalley. Overall, I found this to be a solid short fiction collection. A few stories were definitely not for me, but others I really, really enjoyed. That wide range landed the c......more

Goodreads review by Alvaro on December 29, 2017

Hassan Blasim’s editorial call in Iraq + 100, originally suggested to him by his publisher, is a fascinating one—“imagine Iraq a hundred years after the US occupation, through short fiction”—and it has engendered a must-read anthology. In his Foreword, Blasim makes a number of interesting observatio......more


Quotes

"Peter Ganim was the right choice to narrate this audiobook." -Locus


Awards

  • NPR Best Book of the Year