The last pomegranate tree /
"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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English, translated from Kurdish. |
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Brooklyn, New York :
Archipelago Books,
2023.
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| 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. |
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| Item Description: | "Copyright © Bachtyar Ali, 2002. First published in Sorani Kurdish as Diwahemîn henary dûnya by Ranj Press in Sulaimaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan. English translation copyright © Kareem Abdulrahman, 2022. First Archipelago Books Edition, 2023"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 315 pages ; 18 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781953861405 1953861407 |