God 99 : Comma Press : 9781905583775 : 190558377X : 26 Nov 2020 : 'Bitter, furious and unforgettable... Blasim's stories struck me as so different from anything else I had read, not only from that part of the world but from anywhere else.' ? The Wall Street Journal 'At his best, Blasim produces a corrosive mixture of broken lyricism, bitter irony and hyper-realism which topples into the fantastic and the quotidian in the same reading moment. M. John Harrison Chess-playing people-traffickers, suicidal photographers, absurdist sound sculptors, cat-loving rebel sympathisers, murderous storytellers... The characters in Hassan Blasim's debut novel are not the inventions of a wild imagination, but real-life refugees and people whose lives have been devastated by war. Interviewed by Hassan Owl, an aspiring Iraq-born writer, they become the subjects of an online art project, a blog that blurs the boundaries between fiction and autobiography, reportage and the novel. Framed