Anyone looking for easy explanations among the severed heads and worm-eaten corpses will be disappointed." - Marianne Brace, The Independent (.) The stories, translated by Jonathan Wright, have a slightly ragged quality. Blasim's taste for the surreal can be Gogol-like. (.) Narrators retell tales with a mixture of truth and myth-making. "While using familiar scenarios such as hostage-taking, suicide-bombing, exile, Blasim pitches everyday horror into something almost gothic.Ultimately, though, the book reveals little about the Iraqi mentality that the reader could not have guessed." - Hester Vaizey, Financial Times "Unflinchingly graphic descriptions of violence and explicit sexual references make this an unsettling read.
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