Bøger af Feurat Alani

"In this poignant first novel of memory, identity, and generational trauma, a child of political refugees tries to uncover the past his dying father kept secret, painting a powerful, layered portrait of Iraq from the 1950s to the 2000s. At the beginning of the 1970s, the young Rami decided to flee the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. A political refugee in France, he is a taciturn man, evasive about his past. At the end of his life, hospitalized for cancer treatment, Rami suddenly suffers from amnesia. His memories seem to have stopped somewhere between Iraq and France. "I remember Fallujah," he says to his son, Euphrates, who sees it as an opportunity to finally discover his father's story. But then there's nothing. Rami has forgotten the second part of his life: that of exile. Euphrates will then tell what he knows, with the hope of unlocking long-held secrets. A quest that will plunge him into a tumultuous family odyssey, from Paris to Fallujah. A moving tribute to the love between father and son that bridges time and space, this unforgettable first novel explores the complexities of the immigrant dream, and how we live with the family and country into which we were born"--

Originally published in French in 2018 and winner of the Prix Albert Londres, this unique graphic novel provides a glimpse of the devastating changes inflicted on Iraq as told through 1000 tweets and poignant illustrations. During the summer of 2016, distrought and disappointed by how Iraq is described in the media, French-Iraqi journalist Feurat Alani posted over 1000 tweets in which he told the world about his Iraq. Feurat grew up in Paris, but spent many childhood summers in an Iraq that he watched fall apart under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. As an adult, he reports from an Iraq under American occupation, and discovers the sounds and silences of war. The Flavors of Iraq is an intimate and discerning look at a battered country from first a child's, then a young man's perspective. Together with Léonard Cohen's superb illustrations, the result is a poetic and powerful story of a different Iraq.