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Cargando... Baghdad Noirpor Samuel Shimon (Editor)
![]() Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The stories focus on everything from everyday life to the intrigues and dangers common to war torn cities around the world, and the writers do a good job in capturing the atmosphere within which all their mysteries and crimes take place. One of the more interesting stories, precisely because it focuses on a period seldom captured in fiction today, is set in 1950. That story, "Baghdad House," though, has a bit of a nebulous endings and is not among my favorites, as it turns out. My favorites are "Jasim's File," a story with a bit of a twist at the end about a man who escapes from a mental institution when the building is hit in during a firefight, and "Baghdad on Borrowed Time," a well crafted story about someone taking revenge on numerous members of Saddam Hussein's brutal regime. I also like the cleverness of the one story in the book by a non-Iraqi, American Roy Scranton, called "Homecoming," another story of revenge and murder - a combination that I can well imagine occurs in Baghdad today way more than anyone would like to think. ![]() The stories themselves are, as could be expected, mixed - some good, some intriguing, some neither of those. My personal favorite of the lot is Jasim's File - I won't spoil it, but it's based on very real events and also one of the most disturbing amongst a number of unsettling stories. ![]() Hayet Raies' "The Fear of Iraqi Intelligence" blended young romance with the secret police. The potent combination makes for great noir. Hussain al-Mozany's "Empty Bottles" is the type of noir where where the reader isn't sure what's real or not, as the protagonist pursues the man who killed a neighbor of his. He personally witnessed the murder as a young child and it has haunted him his entire life. Roy Scranton's "Homecoming" is a revenge tale I could see coming from a distance, but the joy (as a reader) was seeing how it would get put together and whether he would pull it off. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"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."--Provided by publisher. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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