Selected short stories from the works of a new shining star in the Arab literary sky, an Iraqi filmmaker, essayist and fiction writer Hassan Blasim (Ḥasan Blāsim), who has been a political refugee in Finland for some years now.
Srpko Leštarić: Funny Serbian Surnames
A unique catalogue of 5,500 unusual Serbian surnames arranged basically according to their endings. Many are also grouped so to form etymological nests. Many are real fun being made up of popular nicknames and compound words.
The Ships of my Heart are Sailing over Thirsty Water – Nursery Songs of Mesopotamian Arabs
A treatise on the genre of lullabies in general, including other types of cradle songs and songs for little children up to 2 years of age.
Zakariyya Tamir: Wasted Advice
Collection of short fables for children. Translated from the modern standard Arabic.
Original title: Nasā’iḥ muhmala.
Hassan Blasim: The Iraqi Christ
Original title: Al-Masīḥ al-‘irāqī wa qiṣaṣ uẖrā
Selected short stories from the Iraqi filmmaker, essayist and fiction writer Hassan Blasim (Ḥasan Blāsim)
Compilation of 24 short stories from newest author’s collections, written after 2006, that accompany the choice of 12 anthological stories published earlier in the collection entitled The Happiest Man in the World (Geopoetika, Beograd 2004.)
