My Father's Rifle by Hiner Saleem

My Father's Rifle by Hiner Saleem

My Father's Rifle is a beautiful narrative about the life of boy named Azad and his coming-of-age in Iraq during the 1960s and 1970s. Azad is born into a vibrant village culture, to a family that is proud of its Kurdish past. He loves his mother's orchard, his cousin's stunt pigeons, his father's old Czech rifle, and his brother who is away fighting in the mountains. But before he is even of school age, Azad has experienced strafing and bombing, he watches as friends and neighbours are assassinated and he sees his father humiliated when he tried to get food for his starving family. Forced into a refugee camp in Iran for years, the family returns to find Saddam Hussein in power, and destroying the autonomy he had promised their people. In a burst of adolescent rebellion, Azad briefly runs away to the mountains to join his brother in the fight for Kurdish liberty. But Azad returns, sensing he must find his own way to advance the Kurdish cause. He realizes that in order to achieve his dreams of becoming a filmmaker, he must flee to Syria and leave behind the family and land he loves so much.

'Saleem describes, without sentimentality and with stunning simplicity, daily life in a tormented country.. An impressive book.' Livres Hebdo

Hiner Saleem was born in Iraq and fled the country when he was seventeen years old. He is an acclaimed film director whose Vodka Lemon won the Venice Film Festival's San Marco Prize in 2002. He lives in Paris. My Father's Rifle, published by Atlantic Books in 2005, has been translated into more than twenty languages.

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ISBN 13	9781843543121
ISBN 10	1843543125
Title	My Father's Rifle
Author	Hiner Saleem
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Atlantic Books
Year published	2005-02-10
Number of pages	160
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