The president's gardens / Muhsin Al-Ramli ; translated from the Arabic by Luke Leafgren.
On the third day of Ramadan, a small village in Iraq 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781635060362
- ISBN: 9781635060379
- ISBN: 1635060362
- ISBN: 1635060370
- ISBN: 9780857056788
- ISBN: 0857056786
- ISBN: 0857056778
- ISBN: 9780857056771
- Physical Description: 349 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York : MacLehose Press, 2017.
Content descriptions
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Arabic.
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- Subject:
- Male friendship > Iraq > Fiction.
Men's friendships.
Iraq > Social conditions > 20th century > Fiction.
Iraq > Social conditions > 21st century > Fiction. - Genre:
- Historical fiction.
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 2 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacksonville Main Library | FIC RAMLI (Text) | 36015000648309 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
