The President's Gardens

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The President's Gardens

Author : Muhsin Al-Ramli

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Highlights

English

Language

The Presidents Gardens

Edition

349

Pages

9780857056801

ISBN-13

0857056801

ISBN-10

Maclehose Press Quercus

Publisher

198 mm

Height

129 mm

Width

20 mm

Thickness

Paperback

Binding

Description

On the third day of Ramadan, in a land without bananas, the village wakes to find the severed heads of nine of its sons stacked in banana crates next to the bus stop.

One of them belonged to perhaps the most wanted man 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 among 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.