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The President's Gardens
Engelsk Paperback
The President's Gardens
Engelsk Paperback

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One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite Runner in Saddam Hussein''s Iraq.

"A contemporary tragedy of epic proportions. No author is better placed than Muhsin Al-Ramli, already a star in the Arabic literary scene, to tell this story. I read it in one sitting".
Hassan Blasim, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Iraqi Christ.

On the third day of Ramadan, the village wakes to find the severed heads of nine of its sons stacked in banana crates by the bus stop.

One of them belonged to one of the most wanted men in Iraq, known to his friends as Ibrahim the Fated.

How did this good and humble man earn the enmity of so many? What did he do to deserve such a death?

The answer lies in his lifelong friendship with Abdullah Kafka and Tariq the Befuddled, who each have their own remarkable stories to tell.

It lies on the scarred, irradiated battlefields of the Gulf War and in the ashes of a revolution strangled in its cradle.

It lies in the steadfast love of his wife and the festering scorn of his daughter.

And, above all, it lies behind the locked gates of The President''s Gardens, buried alongside the countless victims of a pitiless reign of terror.

Translated from the Arabic by Luke Leafgren

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
352
ISBN-13:
9780857056801
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0857056808
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
5 apr 2018
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
197mm
Højde:
130mm
Forlag:
Quercus Publishing
Oplagsdato:
5 apr 2018
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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