Baghdad Noir (Iraq)

Baghdad Noir

 (Iraq)

Edited by: Samuel Shimon

http://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/baghdad-noir/

One of the world’s most war-torn cities is portrayed through a noir lens in this chilling story collection.

Description

Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.

Brand-new stories by: Muhsin Al-Ramli, Nassif Falak, Hadia Said, Ahmed Saadawi, Salima Salih, Roy Scranton, Hayet Raies, Mohammed Alwan Jabr, Dheya al-Khalidi, Hussain al-Mozany, Sinan Antoon, Salar Abdoh, Ali Bader, and Layla Qasrany.

Muhsin Al-Ramli

From “I Killed Her Because I Loved Her” 

by contributor Muhsin Al-Ramli:

The neighborhood, timeless with its narrow, smelly lanes, seemed to have been forgotten since it came into being with the foundation of Baghdad in Abbasid times. The streets were pocked with potholes, noisy with the clamor of children playing and the clatter of peddlers’ carts. On the pavement there were piles of putrid, smoldering garbage: the smoke mixed with the smell of spices, grilled meat, and other foods cooking. The houses were crammed with people and were built of old bricks and planks of wood. If they hadn’t been leaning on each other, the only reason they didn’t collapse was that there wasn’t enough space on the ground between them.

https://www.amazon.com/Baghdad-Noir-Akashic-Samuel-Shimon-ebook/dp/B076QG37LD