The president's gardens
By: Muhsin Al-Ramli ; translated from the Arabic by Luke Leafgren
Contributors: Leafgren, Luke, translator
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781635060362; 9781635060379
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Social conditions; Male friendship; Fiction
Work titles: Ḥadāʼiq al-raʼīs
Description: 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.
Notes: Translation from the Arabic of: Ḥadāʼiq al-raʼīs.