The Last Pomegranate Tree by Bachtyar, Ali

The Last Pomegranate Tree (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781953861405)

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The Last Pomegranate Tree by Bachtyar, Ali

The Last Pomegranate Tree

$24.00
The Last Pomegranate Tree by Bachtyar, Ali

The Last Pomegranate Tree

$24.00
Format: Paperback
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An extraordinary chronicle of war and an occult story of love between a father and his son from one of Iraq's most celebrated contemporary writers

"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.

Author: Bachtyar Ali
ISBN-10: 1953861407
ISBN-13: 9781953861405
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Language: English
Published: 01/24/2023
Pages: 321
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 6.70h x 5.80w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/31/2022
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2022
Foreword 12/27/2022
By Bachtyar Ali
By Bachtyar Ali
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Bachtyar Ali is one of the most prominent contemporary authors and poets from Iraqi Kurdistan. He has written over 40 books of fiction, poetry, and criticism, including 12 novels, and has been widely translated, a renown very few authors writing in the Kurdish language enjoy. In 2017, he was awarded the Nelly Sachs Prize, joining past recipients such as Milan Kundera, Margaret Atwood and Javier Mar?s. He is the first author writing in a non-European language to do so. In 2009, Ali received the first HARDI Literature Prize, part of the largest cultural festival in the Kurdish part of Iraq. In 2014, he was also awarded the newly established Sherko Bekas Literature Prize.

Kareem Abdulrahman is a translator who has also worked as a Kurdish media and political analyst for the BBC. His translation of Bakhtiyar Ali's I Stared at the Night of the City was the first Kurdish novel to be translated into English. He lives in London.

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