I STARED AT THE NIGHT OF THE CITY (eBook)

Bakhtiyar Ali (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
552 Seiten
Garnet Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-85964-129-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Iraqi Kurdistan at the turn of the twenty-first century is a territory ruled by strongmen, revolutionaries, fixers, bureaucrats and the "Barons" who control everything from livestock and land to Kurdish cultural life. Defying the absolute power wielded by the Barons, a band of friends led by a poet embarks on an odyssey to find the bodies of two lovers killed unjustly by the authorities. The Barons respond by attempting to crush these would-be avengers, though their real war is waged against the imagination itself – a prized, elusive commodity for which intellectuals, merchants, political elites and humble workers all search in one way or another. Told by several unreliable narrators in a kaleidoscope of fragments that all eventually cohere, this novel is a lyrical allegory of contemporary Kurdistan – so much in the news nowadays, but so little understood.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.9.2016
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher
• Themenwelt: Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
• ISBN-10: 1-85964-129-6 / 1859641296
• ISBN-13: 978-1-85964-129-3 / 9781859641293