Un iraquí en París es la historia de un migrante que deja su país natal buscando llegar a Hollywood para cumplir su sueño: realizar una película acerca de un panadero sordo —su padre— y que dicho personaje sea interpretado por Robert de Niro. Además es el relato de quien termina en París luego de muchas vicisitudes y entrega al lector un texto sensible y veraz sobre sus vivencias en bares y estaciones del metro al lado de personajes a la Jean Valjean. Con una mirada tenazmente minuciosa y ...

Bagdad noir es una antología de catorce cuentos ficcionales que exploran el crimen en Bagdad. Cada historia narra un crimen diferente: la sospechosa muerte de una señora mayor, el secuestro de un niño pequeño, el aparente suicidio de un joven, entre muchas otras cautivantes narrativas. En este libro, los lectores se entretendrán con todos los cuentos tan diferentes uno del otro y, sin embargo, tan similares en su deseo de representar la vida de los habitantes de Bagdad, una vida marcada po...

Bagdá noir faz parte da premiada série de antologia noir da Akashic Books. Uma das cidades do mundo mais devastadas pela guerra entra para a coleção com um volume de histórias sombrias, reunindo 14 contos ambientados em diferentes regiões de Bagdá, que formam um complexo mosaico de experiências e perspectivas.

A fully revised third edition in translation of this best-selling 'gem of autobiographical writing' in the Arab world, by an author who has been called 'a relentless raconteur', 'a modern Odysseus', 'the Iraqi Don Quixote'. Providentially leaving Iraq just before Saddam Hussein installs himself as President, the Assyrian narrator of An Iraqi in Paris dreams of becoming a Hollywood film-maker after his hero John Ford, but after arrest and torture in Syria - accused of being a Jewish spy on ...

Brand-new stories by: Sinan Antoon, Ali Bader, Mohammed Alwan Jabr, Nassif Falak, Dheya al-Khalidi, Hussain al-Mozany, Layla Qasrany, Hayet Raies, Muhsin al-Ramli, Ahmed Saadawi, Hadia Said, Salima Salih, Salar Abdoh, and Roy Scranton.From the introduction by Samuel Shimon:"While all Iraqis will readily agree that their life has always been noir, the majority of the stories in Baghdad Noir are set in the years following the American invasion of 2003, though one story is set...

This unique anthology of Iraqi noir fiction collects fourteen original stories of crime, conspiracy, regret, and revenge in the capital of Iraq.The centuries-old city of Baghdad has known many rulers, many troubles, and many crimes. But while most Iraqis would agree that their life has always been noir, there has not been a literary tradition to capture this aspect of the culture. By commissioning the fourteen stories collected here—most by Iraqi writers, all by au...

"Beneath the surface [of our society]," writes historian Robert Wistrich, are "ancient myths, dark hatreds, and irrational fantasies [that] continue to nourish antisemitism." But the larger question has to do with why we are so prone to believe them. To that end, Steven K. Baum has an answer. In this book, Baum carefully guides the reader through the social mind and explains how the formation of social beliefs can be used as a narrative to determine reality. He offers a new perspective reg...