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Butterfly Valley (English, Kurdish, Paperback)
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Butterfly Valley (English, Kurdish, Paperback)
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List price R340
Loot Price R276
Discovery Miles 2 760
You Save R64 (19%)
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The late 1980s witnessed two devastating chemical attacks by the
Saddam regime on Iraqi Kurdistan. The first of these, in 1988,
known as the Anfal campaign, saw the destruction of 3000 Kurdish
villages, over 40 chemical attacks launched, and 100,000 civilians
buried in mass graces, with hundreds more dying of exposure to
chemical weapons. The second attack was on the town of Halabja
where over 5000 people died instantly. Thousands of people who had
survived the attacks in both Anfal and Halabja but had been mildly
affected by the gas later died from cancer and other diseases.
Butterfly Valley is Sherko Bekes' response to these atrocities.
Stunned by the world's silence in the face of this genocide, Bekes
- in exile in Sweden at the time - longs to go home and mourn the
victims. He laments the repetitive cycles of continuous oppression
and suppressed revolutions in Kurdish history, and in his despair
speaks to other exiled Kurdish poets (Nali, Hani and Mawlawi among
them) from the sixteenth century to the present day. This long poem
unfolds in beautifully-drawn images of the poet's homeland -
mountains and forests, rivers and villages, meadows and flowers -
which are juxtaposed with scenes of death, destruction and
suffering. This is an immensely powerful poem, at once lyrical and
heart-rending, and Choman Hardi's fine translation at last gives
the English-speaking reader the most extensive example yet of his
outstanding writing.
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