TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bachtyar Ali
AU  - Kareem Abdulrahman
AU  - Melanie Moore
TI  - The Last Pomegranate Tree
SN  - 9781953861405
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York
PB  - Archipelago Books
KW  - Kurdish literature
KW  - Novel
KW  - Fathers and sons
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Missing children
KW  - Kurdistan
KW  - Iraq
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
N2  - ""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"--
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