The Iraqi Christ
By: by Hassan Blasim ; translated by Jonathan Wright
Contributors: Wright, Jonathan, 1953- translator
Publisher: Comma Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781905583522
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Translations into English; Fiction
Description: This collection of stories explores the chaos of post-invasion Baghdad. A soldier with the ability to predict the future finds himself blackmailed by a suicide bomber into swapping places. A composer of crossword puzzles survives a car-bomb, only to find himself haunted by the spirit of one of its victims. A victim of looting flees armed robbers but falls into a deep hole, at the bottom of which sits a djinn, and the corpse of a Russian soldier from a completely different war.
Notes: Translated from the Arabic.