The Last Pomegranate Tree
by: Bachtyar Ali / Kareem Abdulrahman (Translator)

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st , 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 315 pages. An extraordinary chronicle of war and an occult story of love between a father and his son from one of Iraq's most celebrated contemporary writers. "Whenever he told lies, the birds would fly away. It had been that way since he was a child. Whenever he told a lie, something strange would happen." So begins Bachtyar Ali's The Last Pomegranate, a phantasmagoric warren of fact, fabrication, and mystical allegory, set in the aftermath of Saddam Hussein's rule and Iraq's Kurdish conflict. Clean copy.