“ The pleasure I found in reading books was disconcerting...I felt anxious about every new piece of information. I would latch onto one particular detail and start look for references and other versions… Hassan Blasim
“ The dead, Your Honor, do not agonize over their crimes and do not long to be happy, as you know. Hassan Blasim
“ There's no need to kick him in the balls for him to tell the story honestly and impartially, because the dead are usually honest, even the bastards among them. Hassan Blasim
“ The operation would be in a week...I didn't know if I would survive. How I longed to go back to reading! There was nowhere I longed to be more than the university campus. I was preparing for a master'… Hassan Blasim
“ I don’t recall ever seeing my mother as a human being. She would always be weeping and wailing in the corner of the kitchen like a dog tied up to be tormented. My father would assail her with a hail o… Hassan Blasim
