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The President's gardens

Ramlī, Muḥsin2017
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One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite-Runner in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. 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.
Main title:
The President's gardens / Muhsin Al-Ramli ; translated from the Arabic by Luke Leafgren.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Maclehose Press, an imprint of Quercus Publishing, 2017.©2016
Collation:
349 pages ; 21 cm.
Notes:
"To be continued..."--page 349.
Awards:
Winner - English Pen Award.
ISBN:
9780857056788 (paperback)
Dewey class:
892.737
Language:
English
BRN:
301798
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
Brighton LibraryAdult Fiction - GeneralRAMLAvailable
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