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Chargement... Le Fusil de mon pèrepar Hiner Saleem
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Recomanat per en Lluís propietari de l'espai Anònims de Granollers 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. The recent attacks by Turkey on Kurdish territories in northern Iraq (which went largely unreported in the West, it being Christmas and all…) prompted me to pick up this short book, which has been on my TBR pile for over a year. In less than 150 pages, this ever-so-slightly fictionalised memoir managed to educate and move me deeply. This is essentially the story of Hiner Saleem's childhood and youth, as one of 20-25 million Kurds spread out across the mountainous regions of southern Turkey, eastern Syria, western Iran and – more specifically here – northern Iraq: together, it’s the largest ethnic group not to have its own nation. We follow his alter ego, Azad, as his happy childhood with a loving family turns into desperate years in a refugee camp, followed by arguably worse years back in his home town, under the oppressive regime of the newly-declared president, one Saddam Hussein. I found every level of this book fascinating. The politics are, in a sense, peripheral to the central story, but were enlightening nonetheless. The experience of oppression, and the intense love for the Kurdish nation, were excellently demonstrated. The "coming-of-age" aspect of Azad's personal development rang very true. And, for me, the most moving parts, though not in the foreground, were those displaying the deep love felt between the narrator and each of his parents, as well as his siblings. I was initially unsettled by the prose style, which is rather simple and stilted, rarely beautiful. I thought about comparing it with the original French, but after a while it started to annoy me less, as I identified a child’s innocence and openness in the voice, with certain sentences that were devastating in their dispassion and directness. I’m happy to recommend this book. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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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. 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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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