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Kurdistan + 100 poses a question to twelve contemporary Kurdish
writers: might the Kurds have a country to call their own by the
year 2046 - exactly a century after the last glimmer of
independence (the short-lived Kurdish Republic of Mahabad)? Or
might the struggle for independence have taken new turns and new
forms? Throughout the 20th century (and so far in the 21st), the
Kurds have been betrayed, suppressed, stripped of their basic
rights (from citizenship to the freedom to speak their own
language) and had their political aspirations crushed at every
turn. In this groundbreaking anthology, Kurdish authors (including
several former political prisoners, and one currently serving a
183-year sentence for his views) imagine a freer future, one in
which it is no longer effectively illegal to be a Kurd. From future
eco-activism, to drone warfare, to the resuscitation of victims of
past massacres, these stories explore different sides of the
present struggle through the metaphor of futurism to dazzling
effect. The first anthology of Kurdish science fiction ever
collected and published in the UK, we have invited authors from all
parts of 'Kurdistan' and the diaspora to write specially
commissioned stories set in their own versions of the future.
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