Iraqi poet Salah Al Hamdani has lived a remarkable life. The author
of some forty books in French and Arabic, he began life as a child
laborer, with little or no education. As a political prisoner under
Saddam Hussein, he learned to read and write Arabic; once he was
released form prison, he continued to work against the regime,
ultimately, at age twenty-one, choosing exile in Paris. He now
writes in French, but he remains a poet of exile, of memory,
wounded by the loss of his homeland and those dear to him. This
landmark collection gathers thirty-five years of his writings, from
his first volume in Arabic, Memory of Embers, to his latest
collection, written originally in French, For You I Dream. It
offers English-language readers their first substantial overview of
Al Hamdani's work, fired by the fight against injustice and shot
through with longing for the home to which he can never return.
General
Imprint: |
Seagull Books London Ltd
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Arab List |
Release date: |
June 2018 |
Authors: |
Salah Al Hamdani
|
Translators: |
Sonia Alland
|
Dimensions: |
216 x 127 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
|
Pages: |
264 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-85742-544-7 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-85742-544-7 |
Barcode: |
9780857425447 |
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