A review by huskerbee
Iraq + 100: Stories from a century after the invasion by Hassan Blasim

2.0

2.5/5. The premise is great and I'm mindful that it's a kind of writing I'm not used to (and also that they've all been translated), but I just couldn't get into a lot of these stories, which felt amateurish or stilted. The attempts to look back at the Iraq of "a hundred years ago" often came about through choppy exposition.