Hassan Blasim

Iraqi-born writer and filmmaker, writes primarily in Arabic; known for short-story collections including The Corpse Exhibition and The Madman of Freedom Square, and for living and working in Finland.

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  1. 1. The Madman Of Freedom Square

    and Other Stories

    A blistering, hallucinatory collection of short stories that mixes black humor, grotesque violence and surreal allegory to portray life under war, occupation and exile; narrators—soldiers, refugees, madmen and ordinary citizens—move through scenes that alternate between brutal realism and mythic unreality, exposing trauma, loss, bureaucratic absurdity and the strange persistence of longing and human resilience amid chaos.