Abdulrahman Kareem
Abdulrahman Kareem - The Last Pomegranate Tree - Paperback
Abdulrahman Kareem - The Last Pomegranate Tree - Paperback
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Description: 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. An inlet to the recesses of a terrifying historical moment and a philosophical journey of formidable depths The Last Pomegranate interrogates the origins and reverberations of atrocity. It also probes with a graceful intelligence unforgettable acts of mercy.
Title: The Last Pomegranate Tree
Author(s): Abdulrahman Kareem
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Barcode: 9781953861405
Pages: 321 Pages
Publication Date: 1/24/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: 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. An inlet to the recesses of a terrifying historical moment and a philosophical journey of formidable depths The Last Pomegranate interrogates the origins and reverberations of atrocity. It also probes with a graceful intelligence unforgettable acts of mercy.
Title: The Last Pomegranate Tree
Author(s): Abdulrahman Kareem
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Barcode: 9781953861405
Pages: 321 Pages
Publication Date: 1/24/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
