Muḥsin Ramlī
Auteur de The President's Gardens
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Muḥsin Ramlī
I Killed Her Because I Loved Her 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Literature from the "Axis of Evil": Writing from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Other Enemy Nations (2006) — Contributeur — 156 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Ramlī, Muḥsin
- Autres noms
- محسن الرملي
Rodhan, Muhisin Mutlak - Date de naissance
- 1967-03-07
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Iraq
- Lieu de naissance
- Northern Iraq
- Lieux de résidence
- Jordan
Madrid, Spain - Études
- University of Baghdad (B.A.) (Spanish) (1989)
Autonomous University of Madrid (Ph.D.) (Language Studies) (2003) - Professions
- academic
poet
translator
magazine editor - Organisations
- St. Louis University, Madrid
- Prix et distinctions
- Young Writers' Award, Baghdad (1988)
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The President's Gardens par Muhsin al-Ramli
This is a slow-paced novel which worked well for the story. Taking place in Iraq during Hussein's regime and the Iran-Iraq War, The President's Gardens follows Abdullah, Tariq, and Ibrahim, three friends who lives intertwine and who deal with things like love, loss, oppression, war, and more. Beautifully written and intriguing, I highly recommend.
½A haunting, unsettling book, The President's Gardens follows three friends—Tariq, Ibrahim, and Abdullah—who are born in a small village in Iraq in the late 1950s. They live through war, dictatorship, imprisonment, torture, and coercion, which Muhsin al-Ramli recounts in prose that doesn't ask the reader to become a voyeur, but rather a witness. Though the pacing and structure have some issues, and I found the ending to be a bit too abrupt, this is still a powerful read.
For many of us, Iraq as an entity is summed up by the images of air strikes on the news and by the rhetoric of politicians and military leaders. It is a place that for all my life has seemed profoundly 'other': my earliest memories of seeing war on television are of the Gulf War, when I was five years old. So I came to this book with curiosity, hoping to learn more about the people who have suffered such an existence. Written by the expatriate Iraqi author Muhsin Al-Ramli, it's a haunting, often horrific tale of three close friends in a rural community, whose lives intersect with the tragedy and chaos of their country.
For the review, due to be published on 8 May 2017, please see my blog:
https://theidlewoman.net/2017/05/08/the-presidents-gardens-muhsin-al-ramli… (plus d'informations)
For the review, due to be published on 8 May 2017, please see my blog:
https://theidlewoman.net/2017/05/08/the-presidents-gardens-muhsin-al-ramli… (plus d'informations)
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- 102
- Popularité
- #187,251
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 19
- Langues
- 1