Iraq + 100
Iraq + 100Hassan Blasim
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Iraq + 100 (2016)

Hassan Blasim

Others: Mixed

Iraq + 100 poses a question to contemporary Iraqi writers: what might your home city look like in the year 2103 exactly 100 years after the disastrous American and British-led invasion of Iraq? How might that war reach across a century of repair and rebirth, and affect the state of the country its politics, its religion, its language, its culture and how might Iraq have finally escaped its chaos, and found its own peace, a hundred years down the line? As well as being an exercise in escaping the politics of the present, this anthology is also an opportunity for a hotbed of contemporary Arabic writers to offer its own spin on science fiction and fantasy.

ISBN:
9781905583669
Length:
224 pages

Genres: fantasy, science fiction

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