The last pomegranate tree / Bachtyar Ali ; translated from the Kurdish by Kareem Abdulrahman, with Melanie Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

ʻElî, Bextiyar, author.

Contributor:

Abdulrahman, Kareem, translator.

Moore, Melanie (Freelance translator), translator.

Standardized Title:

Diwahemîn henary dûnya. English

Language:

English

Kurdish

Subjects (All):

Fathers and sons--Fiction.

Fathers and sons.

Kurdistan--Fiction.

Kurdistan.

Iraq--History--21st century--Fiction.

Iraq.

Missing children--Fiction.

Missing children.

Genre:

Novels.

Historical fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Kurdish fiction -- Translations into English.

Physical Description:

315 pages ; 18 cm.

Edition:

First Archipelago Books edition.

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, 2023.

Language Note:

In English, translated from Kurdish.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of Joan Detz.

ISBN:

9781953861405

1953861407

OCLC:

1359918518