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The Last Pomegranate Tree

The Last Pomegranate Tree

Historical FictionLiterary Fiction
Pages
321
Published
2023
Language
English

Synopsis

This is the story of a young boy named Hemn who lives in a village in Iraqi Kurdistan. When his grandfather falls ill, Hemn must embark on a dangerous journey to find a legendary pomegranate tree, believed to hold the cure. Facing the harsh realities of war and displacement, Hemn's quest becomes a test of his courage and resilience.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

MelancholicEmotionalReflectiveThought-Provoking

Genres

Historical Fiction Literary Fiction

About the author

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Bachtyar Ali

Bachtyar Ali (Sorani Kurdish: بەختیار عەلی; also transliterated Bakhtiyar or Bakhtyar Ali) is a Kurdish novelist, poet and essayist, born in 1966 in Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan. Injured during student protests against Saddam Hussein's government in 1983, he abandoned his geology studies for literature, and published his first poetry collection, Gunah w Karnaval (Sin and Carnival), in 1992. He has lived in Germany since the mid-1990s and continues to write in Sorani Kurdish. His fiction sets...

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