The Last Pomegranate Tree

In this celebrated novel by the Kurdish writer Bakhtiyar Ali, Muzafar, a former fighter, is released after twenty-one years in a desert prison. He sets out across a changed Kurdistan to find Saryas, the son he left behind as a baby. His search becomes a chain of stories within stories about war, friendship, betrayal and the children who pay for their elders' battles. Poetic and full of symbols, it rewards patient reading. The text is in Persian (Farsi/Dari).

Author: Bakhtiyar Ali

Translator: آرش سنجابی

Persian title: آخرین انار دنیا

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