Kurdish author Seyhmus Dagtekin wrote a wonderful novel about life in a mountain village in Turkish #Kurdistan. It reads like a poetic childhood memoir with hints of magical realism.
Photo of Hawraman, a Kurdish village in Iran that fits the book's descriptions, by Mardetanha (Wikipedia).
I am so sad today. #literati announced that the book subscription service is ending. It really is my favorite subscription service-giving you tons of seriously thought provoking selections each month to choose from. The app was fantastic and included a page tracker for your current read. Oh well. I guess all good things come to and end 😭 The tagged book appears to be my last selection.
Kobane Calling, about the battle of Kobane and the Kurdish Rojava region in Syria, where an autonomous democratic feminist, ecological and diverse self-government was created. The media has completely moved on from the war in Syria.
#Syria #Kurdistan
pickDiario di viaggio che affronta un tema poco discusso nei media occidentali, la guerra del popolo curdo per la sua indipendenza. Con la sua consueta ironia e senza troppi sentimentalismi, Zerocalcare offre il suo punto di vista da occidentale durante due viaggi in loco.
pickI‘ve started this book SO MANY TIMES but was never able to stick with it. Today, I picked it up and literally couldn‘t put it down. It‘s probably a niche read, but the story of the last Kurdish Jews was ABSOLUTELY riveting to me. When the First Temple was destroyed in 587 BCE, a group of Jewish exiles fled to the mountains of now Iraq and remained there for the next 2500 years!!! The author‘s father was the last remaining Jew to have his👇🏽
pickHistory of the nation in one paragraph ...
I don‘t like when the narrator is child, but I did like it in this story. Azad is a young boy growing up in the times of a Kurdish fight for freedom and independence from #Iraq at the end of 60s and beginning of 70s. A stolen childhood, a painful fate of a forgotten nation, but the author has also managed to bring some humour through anecdotes. Sad and good. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #ReadingAsia2021
First novel published in English by a Kurdish female author.based on Kurdish history through the story of one family s history looking forward to reading and learning about a world far far away,
pickIt was good, but against Five Little Indians it didn't have the same emotional pull. Similarities in the stories with removal by beating of their culture, language way of life yes, but to me FLI is stronger - I'm reading this with the Giller longlist potential in mind.
Was asked to comment on the cover - I don't see it as being overly pertinent to the content?
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@Lindy
Like in Five Little Indians with the residential schools forcing abandonment of their Indigenous language, here we see Kurdish children beaten for speaking their native language. Their identity, roots and culture brutally taken from them.
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Going to give this one a try now. Been on my shelf for a bit.
It's a nice night out now, the stupid heat and humidity died down.
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