The last pomegranate tree.
The last pomegranate tree.
By
:
ʻElî, Bextiyar.
Publication Date
:
2023
Subject Term
:
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
Missing children -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Genre
:
Historical fiction.
Additional Contributors
:
Abdulrahman, Kareem.
Moore, Melanie (Freelance translator)
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.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9781953861405
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult Fic Softcover | Adult Fiction Softcover | FIC ELI | Checked In |