| Edition |
First Archipelago Books edition. |
| Description |
315 pages ; 18 cm |
| Summary |
""Whenever he told lies, the birds would fly away. It had been that way since he was a child. Whenever he told a lie, something strange would happen." So begins Bachtyar Ali's The Last Pomegranate, a phantasmagoric warren of fact, fabrication, and mystical allegory, set in the aftermath of Saddam Hussein's rule and Iraq's Kurdish conflict. Muzafar-i Subhdam, a peshmerga fighter, has spent the last twenty-one years imprisoned in a desert yearning for his son, Saryas, who was only a few days old when Muzafar was captured. Upon his release, Muzafar begins a frantic search, only to learn that Saryas was one of three identical boys who became enmeshed in each other's lives as war mutilated the region"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Language |
In English, translated from Kurdish. |
| Subject |
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
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Kurdistan -- Fiction.
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Iraq -- History -- 21st century -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Novels.
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Historical fiction.
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| Added Author |
Abdulrahman, Kareem, translator.
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Moore, Melanie (Freelance translator), translator.
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| Added Title |
Diwahemîn henary dûnya. English
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| ISBN |
9781953861405 (paperback) |
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1953861407 (paperback) |
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