THE CORPSE EXHIBITION AND OTHER STORIES OF IRAQ

Book ID/图书代码： 03240314B68457

English Summary/英文概要： A blistering debut that does for the Iraqi perspective on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan what Phil Klay’s Redeployment does for the American perspective

The first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspective—by an explosive new voice hailed as “perhaps the best writer of Arabic fiction alive” (The Guardian)—The Corpse Exhibition shows us the war as we have never seen it before. Here is a world not only of soldiers and assassins, hostages and car bombers, refugees and terrorists, but also of madmen and prophets, angels and djinni, sorcerers and spirits.

Blending shocking realism with flights of fantasy, The Corpse Exhibition offers us a pageant of horrors, as haunting as the photos of Abu Ghraib and as difficult to look away from, but shot through with a gallows humor that yields an unflinching comedy of the macabre. Gripping and hallucinatory, this is a new kind of storytelling forged in the crucible of war.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 来自伊拉克最为振聋发聩的一个新声音，可能是阿拉伯现今文坛的最棒的一位现实作家。（英国卫报）

从伊拉克人自身的角度来看待伊拉克战争的第一部重要文学作品，《形如枯槁的伊拉克》向我们展现了之前所未见的过的战争一面。在这个世界里不仅有士兵和暗杀者，人质和汽车炸弹，难民和恐怖分子，还有战争狂人和预言家，天使和神灵，巫师和鬼神。以天马行空般的幻想胶着着令人震惊的现实，本书的作者Hassan Blasim呈现给我们一场恐怖的集会，如同伊拉克战俘阿布贾里布虐俘门鲜活的照片一样，我们无法视若不见，用一种黑色幽默震慑出一股令人不禁颤栗的幽默。令人眩晕且摄人心魄，这部风格独一的故事绘制出战争那副狰狞的面孔。(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：“Perhaps the greatest writer of Arabic fiction alive . . . [His stories are] crisp and shocking . . . cruel, funny and unsettling [with] hooks and twists that will lodge in any mind.” —The Guardian “Arresting, auspicious . . . Well-plotted, blackly comic . . . Sharp, tragicomic moments . . . persist in memory. . . . Its opening story [features] a terrorist middle manager who wouldn’t be out of place in one of George Saunders’s workplace nightmares. . . . ‘The Song of the Goats’ [is] a cunning gem. . . . If a short story could break the heart of a rock, this might just be the one. . . . The collection’s last story is so complicatedly good [with] an ending worthy of Rod Serling. Mr. Blasim’s stories owe more than a little of their dream logic to [Carlos] Fuentes and Serling, with maybe some Julio Cortázar thrown in. . . . Their sequence imparts a mounting novelistic power.” —The New York Times

About the Author/作者介绍： Hassan Blasim是一个诗人，电影制作人和短篇故事作家。他于1973年生于巴格达，在城市的电影学院学习，在此期间，他的两部电影获得了奥斯卡的最佳工作奖。1998年，他离开巴格达前往伊拉克库尔德斯坦，在那里他继续制作电影，其中包括长篇戏剧《破损的照相机》，他同时也担忧着远在巴格达的在萨达姆独裁统治下的家人。2004年，他移居芬兰，开始制作数不清的微电影，并为芬兰电视台制作纪录片。他的故事也曾被www.iraqstory.com网站播放，Blasim有关电影的散文集也被拍摄成电影。他的第一部英文短篇小说《中东的城市故事》被发表在《麦地那》上。这是他第一本出版的书。
Jonathan Wright在1970年间在牛津大学学习阿拉伯语，在过往居住在阿拉伯的30年中，有18年时间与路透社的记者一同工作。他的第一部重大文学翻译作品是Khaled el-Khamissi的《出租车》，于2008年被辉耀文学出版。

Hassan Blasim was born in Baghdad and was persecuted under Saddam Hussein’s regime. In 1998 he fled to Iraqi Kurdistan, where he made films and taught filmmaking under a pseudonym. A year into the Iraq War he escaped to Finland, where he is a filmmaker, poet, fiction writer, and co-editor of the Arabic literary website Iraq Story.

Jonathan Wright studied Arabic at Oxford University and has spent much of the last three decades in the Arab world, primarily as a journalist with Reuters.

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