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3 Works 114 Membros 6 Críticas

About the Author

Includes the name: Hiner Saleem

Obras por Hiner Saleem

Vodka Lemon (2003) 3 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1964
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Kurdistan
País (no mapa)
Iraq

Membros

Críticas

Recomanat per en Lluís propietari de l'espai Anònims de Granollers
 
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Iubarta | 5 outras críticas | Jul 22, 2017 |
Iraq (Kurdistan)

Reviewers aren't clear whether this is fiction or memoir. It appears to be best treated as "fictionalized memoir." Azad Selim is a young boy in Iraqi Kurdistan. As the Baathist regime gains power, his community's life becomes increasingly miserable and its insurgency increases. The book is interesting but choppy and artless, a story without a plot. It is useful for its portrait of Kurdish villages and concerns, and to show U.S. readers a different side of Iraq's conflicts. It is also oddly refreshing to read a book from someone under Iraqi authority who (with his community) applauds Saddam Hussein's overthrow.
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OshoOsho | 5 outras críticas | Mar 30, 2013 |
En lille, men meget sigende fortælling om kurdernes omtumlede historie med udgangspunkt i den kurdiske dreng, Azads historie.
 
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msc | 5 outras críticas | Mar 1, 2010 |
A short memoir that makes clear the pain and frustration of life for a boy growing up a citizen of a nation that exists fully only in its people’s dreams: Kurdistan.
1 vote
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kambrogi | 5 outras críticas | Jan 9, 2008 |

Prémios

Estatísticas

Obras
3
Membros
114
Popularidade
#171,985
Avaliação
3.2
Críticas
6
ISBN
13
Línguas
10

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