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“Feurat Alani’s debut novel is a lyrical journey of remembering, a son’s voyage to salvage fading memories of an amnesiac father and piece together a past too personal and precious to be lost to oblivion. As the protagonist, Euphrates, rediscovers a father and a fatherland, he has to reconcile the personal history with the objective truth. Feurat Alani’s Iraq is not just a country; it becomes any place you and I have been expelled from, a home you and I yearn to return to.” —Ali Araghi, author of The Immortals of Tehran
“A profoundly moving novel about the scars and cruelties of history, an unforgettable portrait of Iraq, and a deeply humane story of fathers and sons. I was struck by every page.” —Ayşegül Savaş, author of Walking on the Ceiling and White on White
“A poetic novel that reveals a forgotten Iraq.” —TV5Monde
“Brilliant…A son’s tribute to his father, a beautiful act of recognition.” —Le Figaro Littéraire
“In his poignant first novel, reporter Feurat Alani examines his Iraqi roots and the complexity of filiation.” —Livres Hebdo