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The President’s Gardens, in The guardian. Fiction. Book of the day. The President’s Gardens review by Muhsin Al-Ramli – love, death and injustice in Iraq. An affirmation of the importance of friendship amid oppression, this vivid epic of life in a war zone is woven from the true stories of those who live there. www.doorway.ru#img The President’s Gardens written by Mushin Al-Ramli and translated by Luke Leafgren is a book not to be taken lightly and is an incredibly beautiful novel that has passion running through its heart. An outstanding achievement in Iraqi literature. Muhsin Al-Ramli’s The President’s Gardens (translated by Luke Leafgren, review copy courtesy of MacLehose Press) starts rather dramatically, with an early-morning discovery the finder would rather not have stumbled across: In a land without bananas, the village awoke to nine banana crates, each containing the severed head of one of its sons.
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