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Book

The last pomegranate tree

Call Number

  • FICTION ELI (CEN)

Edition

First Archipelago Books edition.

Languages

In English, translated from Kurdish.

Publication Information

Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, 2023.

Physical 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"--

Notes

"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," -- Verso.

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