tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65398880446128886932012-01-28T10:33:59.055-08:00حسن بلاسمbalasimnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6539888044612888693.post-75869126998433168612010-07-09T18:05:00.000-07:002012-01-28T10:33:59.062-08:00<div align="center">Italian Edition</div><br /><p align="center"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 229px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5702750549069999538" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qQ_vhSo0aHI/TyQ9aO_7LbI/AAAAAAAABsE/CFvot5KZl50/s320/9788887847369.jpg" /> </p><br /><p align="center"><br /></p><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 217px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5702749257832690050" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SLsMG5b6y88/TyQ8PEw9cYI/AAAAAAAABr4/R2UKB3ON3Bw/s320/hassan%2Bbook2.jpg" /> <br /><p align="center"><br /><br /><a style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-RIGHT: 1em" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hHjvyE_0rEI/TDSobK1w5FI/AAAAAAAABLw/iXLjurhICgA/s1600/rew.bmp" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hHjvyE_0rEI/TDSobK1w5FI/AAAAAAAABLw/iXLjurhICgA/s320/rew.bmp" rw="true" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Madman-Freedom-Square-Hassan-Blasim/dp/1905583257">amazon</a><br /><a href="http://www.commapress.co.uk/?section=books&amp;page=MadmanofFreedomSquare">comma press</a><br /><a href="https://www.akateeminenkirjakauppa.fi/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10001&amp;storeId=10052&amp;productId=1005175378&amp;langId=-11&amp;contractId=">akateeminen kirjakauppa</a><br /></p><br /><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><strong>The Madman of Freedom Square<br /></strong>by Hassan Blasim<br />Translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright.</div><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br />The first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspective.<br /><br /><span style="color:#9fc5e8;">*Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2010</span><br /><br />'Perhaps the best writer of Arabic fiction alive...'<br /><span style="color:#e69138;">– The Guardian, 12 Jun 10.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" dir="ltr" trbidi="on">'The news machine has shifted its attention to Afghanistan, and Iraqis are being left to fend for themselves. Blasim's collection reminds us that anything could still happen there. Iraq's story must still be told, and we need Iraqi voices like Blasim's to tell it.'<br /><span style="color:#e69138;">– Intelligent Life, Nov 09</span>.</div><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br />'Blasim pitches everyday horror into something almost gothic... his taste for the surreal can be Gogol-like.'<br /><span style="color:#e69138;">The Independent, 6 Oct 09.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" dir="ltr" trbidi="on">'Blasim moves adeptly between surreal, internalised states of mind and ironic commentary on Islamic extremism and the American invasion... excellent.<br /><span style="color:#e69138;">– The Metro, 22 Oct 09.</span></div><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" dir="ltr" trbidi="on">'Crisp and shocking.... Too febrile and macabre to file under reportage, this cruel, funny and unsettling debut has hooks and twists that will lodge in any mind.'<br /><span style="color:#e69138;">– The Guardian</span> </div><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /><span style="color:#e69138;">More</span><br /><a href="http://www.commapress.co.uk/">http://www.commapress.co.uk/</a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr"></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6539888044612888693-7586912699843316861?l=www.hassanblasim.com' alt='' /></div>balasimnoreply@blogger.com