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02359aam a22003977i 4500 001 06FB27F68C0011EDA40A627456ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230104011844 008 220216s2022 nyu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 9781639362783 020 $a 1639362789 040 $d SILO 043 $a a-iq--- 082 4 $a 813 100 1 $a MiÌkhaÌʼiÌl, DunyaÌ, $d 1965- $e author. 245 14 $a The bird tattoo : $b a novel / $c Dunya Mikhail. 250 $a First Pegasus Books edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Pegasus Books, $c 2022. 300 $a 268 pages ; $c 24 cm. 500 $a "Finalist for the International Prize for Arabic fiction."--Cover. 520 $a Helen is a young Yazidi woman, living with her family in a mountain village in Sinjar, northern Iraq. One day she finds a local bird caught in a trap, and frees it, just as the trapper, Elias, returns. At first angry, he soon sees the error of his ways and vows never to keep a bird captive again. Helen and Elias fall deeply in love, marry and start a family in Sinjar. The village has seemed to stand apart from time, protected by the mountains and too small to attract much political notice. But their happy existence is suddenly shattered when Elias, a journalist, goes missing. A brutal organization is sweeping over the land, infiltrating even the remotest corners, its members cloaking their violence in religious devotion. Helen's search for her husband results in her own captivity and enslavement. She eventually escapes her captors and is reunited with some of her family. But her life is forever changed. Elias remains missing and her sons, now young recruits to the organization, are like strangers. Will she find harmony and happiness again? 650 0 $a Yezidi women $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Families $z Iraq $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Religious militants $z Iraq $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Arabic fiction. 651 0 $a SinjaÌr (Iraq) $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Iraq $x History $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Epic fiction. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 5 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010032041.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20230207011437.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20230124010700.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20230111010203.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230104013405.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=06FB27F68C0011EDA40A627456ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search