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01990aam a2200361Mi 4500 001 5072D090A2C711ED850ED7DB26ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230202010041 008 221215s2023 nyu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1953861407 020 $a 9781953861405 040 $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h kur 043 $a a-iq--- 050 14 $a PK6908.9.E35 $b D5913 2023 082 04 $a 891/.5973 $2 23/eng/20221215 100 1 $a ʻElî, Bextiyar, $e author. 240 10 $a Diwahemîn henary dûnya. $l English. 245 14 $a The last pomegranate tree / $c Bachtyar Ali ; translated from the Kurdish by Kareem Abdulrahman, with Melanie Moore. 250 $a First Archipelago Books edition. 264 1 $a Brooklyn, NY : $b Archipelago Books, $c 2023. 300 $a 315 pages ; $c 18 cm. 520 $a ""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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Fathers and sons $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Kurdistan $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Iraq $x History $y 21st century $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft. 700 1 $a Abdulrahman, Kareem, $e translator. 700 1 $a Moore, Melanie $c (Freelance translator), $e translator. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230503011912.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230202010324.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5072D090A2C711ED850ED7DB26ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search