better than food and using the discount code better than food the link is below thanks a bunch also if you'd be so kind as to check out the amazon store that i have linked below that's a collection of all the books or not all but i'm adding to it many of the books that i've reviewed and recommended and this book will be going in there anything you purchase from there the show gets a kickback and i really appreciate it today is the madman of freedom square by hassan blessing translated by jonathan wright this is a gift from tim grayson the neil gaiman approved poet from england i'm going to shamelessly plug his book of poetry here his selected work from NUMBER_TOKEN to NUMBER_TOKEN. seriously like neil gaiman carries around his poetry apparently it's like it's it's kind of a trip that is a an illustration with a couple of mermaids on the front there if one were to look closer that is a mermaid uh looks like she is tonguing a femur bone which is quite interesting i will inspect that so thank you tim i really appreciate it he is also the poet in residence at belvoir castle in england which is this incredible they have an instagram you ought to check it out and he gave me an invite to go and check out the castle and that's kind of amazing i've always wanted a castle so i might be able to go over there to england and hang out with him and pretend for a minute like i have some sort of reason to be there but uh yeah thank you very much regardless tim i really appreciate it hope you and yours are doing well in this period of absolute catastrophe so he sent this collection of short stories to me and i enjoyed it very much this is a dark collection of modern fiction published in NUMBER_TOKEN centered around the experience of refugees and the war in iraq the guardian the paper has said that blase is perhaps the best writer of arabic fiction alive and there's a great interview with blessing below where i uh got most of the following information hassan blassiem is an author poet and filmmaker who was born in baghdad but escaped to finland as a refugee through a long and arduous journey that took approximately i think three years or so his real life experiences make their way into his fiction and one gets the impression that plainly put he has seen some really dark up and that this isn't even this isn't even half of it these are war stories told as horror stories vlasim is critical of islam he was critical of saddam hussein and occasionally his writing is kind of coarse and uncensored and uh vulgar so it's no surprise that this book was banned in many arabic countries this is his first book and i believe he had another one that came out recently called god NUMBER_TOKEN which is a reference to you know the NUMBER_TOKEN names of allah so excited to read that one during his time in iraq as a filmmaker he had various problems with the secret police and you know his descriptions of these secret police you know like even in in colleges i mean can you imagine just like the paranoia pinchonian so
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