I wouldn’t say I love Finland
Alexander Dziadosz: Love, Home, Country?, 24 March 2022
Voices of the Lost
by Hoda Barakat, translated by Marilyn Booth.
Oneworld, 197 pp., £12.99, February 2021,978 1 78607 722 6 Show More
by Hoda Barakat, translated by Marilyn Booth.
Oneworld, 197 pp., £12.99, February 2021,
God 99
by Hassan Blasim, translated by Jonathan Wright.
Comma, 278 pp., £9.99, November 2020,978 1 905583 77 5 Show More
by Hassan Blasim, translated by Jonathan Wright.
Comma, 278 pp., £9.99, November 2020,
“... the piles of dead leaves spilling over the kerbs at the corners of deserted streets’. Hassan Blasim’s God 99 is a less disciplined undertaking. Like Barakat, who left Beirut for Paris in 1989, towards the end of the Lebanese civil war, Blasim isn’t a recent arrival to Europe. He was born in Baghdad and ... ”
