Dunya Mikhail
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
A powerful and sweeping novel set over two tumultuous decades in Iraq from the National Book Award-nominated author of The Beekeeper.
Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
Helen is a young Yazidi woman, living with her family in a mountain village in Sinjar, northern Iraq. One day she finds a local bird caught in a trap, and frees it, just as the trapper, Elias, returns. At first angry, he soon sees...
Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
Helen is a young Yazidi woman, living with her family in a mountain village in Sinjar, northern Iraq. One day she finds a local bird caught in a trap, and frees it, just as the trapper, Elias, returns. At first angry, he soon sees...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
211 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail tells the harrowing stories of several women who managed to escape the clutches of Daesh (ISIS). Mikhail extensively interviews these women-- who've lost their families and loved ones, who've been sexually abused, psychologically tortured, and forced to manufacture chemical weapons-- and as their tales unfold, an unlikely hero emerges: a beekeeper, who bring these women through the war-torn landscapes of...
