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Author:

Ramlī, Muḥsin, author.

Title:

The president's gardens / Muhsin Al-Ramli ; translated from the Arabic by Luke Leafgren.

Publisher:

MacLehose Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

349 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Male friendship--Iraq--Fiction.
Iraq--Social conditions--20th century--Fiction.
Iraq--Social conditions--21st century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.

Other Authors:

Leafgren, Luke, translator.

Other Titles:

Ḥadāʼiq al-raʼīs. English

Summary:

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. 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.

ISBN:

9780857056771
0857056778
0857056786
9780857056788
1635060370
9781635060379
1635060362
9781635060362

OCLC:

(OCoLC)985459803

LCCN:

2017045305

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

KAPF566 -- Keokuk Public Library (Keokuk)

NEPC953 -- Lake Mills Public Library (Lake Mills)

GZPE631 -- Pella Public Library (Pella)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)