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The Last Pomegranate Tree

✍ Scribed by Ali Bachtyar; Kareem Abdulrahman

Book ID: 111231028
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Year: 2023
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 712 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781953861412

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✦ Synopsis

An extraordinary chronicle of war and an occult story of love between a father and his son from one of Iraq 's most celebrated contemporary writers
"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.

An inlet to the recesses of a terrifying...

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