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Baghdad Noir

✍ Scribed by Shimon, Samuel

Book ID: 110343064
Publisher: Akashic Books
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Weight: 2 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781617753435

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✦ Synopsis

"This anthology's status as perhaps the first collection of Iraqi crime fiction ever published makes it a landmark."
--_Publishers Weekly_

"Baghdad Noir is the latest addition to the simply outstanding 'Noir' anthology series from Akashic Books...A simply fascinating and at times compulsively driven read."
--_Midwest Book Review_

Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Now, one of the world's most war-torn cities is portrayed though a noir lens in this chilling story collection.

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.

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