The President's Gardens

@2@@20@@18@One Hundred Years of Solitude@19@ meets @18@The Kite Runner @19@in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. @21@@3@@2@@20@"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". @21@@16@@20@Hassan Blasim, winner of the @18@Independent@19@ Foreign Fiction Prize for @18@The Iraqi Christ. @19@@21@@3@@2@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.@3@@2@One of them belonged to one of the most wanted men in Iraq, known to his friends as Ibrahim the Fated.@3@@2@How did this good and humble man earn the enmity of so many? What did he do to deserve such a death?@3@@2@The answer lies in his lifelong friendship with Abdullah Kafka and Tariq the Befuddled, who each have their own remarkable stories to tell.@3@@2@It lies on the scarred, irradiated battlefields of the Gulf War and in the ashes of a revolution strangled in its cradle.@3@@2@It lies in the steadfast love of his wife and the festering scorn of his daughter.@3@@2@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.@3@@2@@20@Translated from the Arabic by Luke Leafgren@21@@3@

Product details

• Authors: Muhsin Al-Ramli, Al-Ramli Muhsin
• Assisted by: Luke Leafgren (Translation), Leafgren Luke (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9780857056801
• ISBN: 978-0-85705-680-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 28 mm
• Series: MacLehose Press Editions; 181 POCHE; MacLehose Press Editions; 181 POCHE
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, RELIGION / Islam / Rituals & Practice, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, HISTORY / Middle East / Iraq, HISTORY / Military / Iraq War (2003-2011), Iraq, Modern warfare, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Specific wars and campaigns, Iraq War