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The bird tattoo : a novel
- Title
- The bird tattoo : a novel / Dunya Mikhail.
- Author
- Mīkhāʼīl, Dunyā, 1965-
- Publication
- New York : Pegasus Books, 2022.
- ©2022
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 23-811 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 268 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Helen is a young Yazidi woman, living with her family in a mountain village in Sinjar, northern Iraq. One day she finds a local bird caught in a trap, and frees it, just as the trapper, Elias, returns. At first angry, he soon sees the error of his ways and vows never to keep a bird captive again. Helen and Elias fall deeply in love, marry and start a family in Sinjar. The village has seemed to stand apart from time, protected by the mountains and too small to attract much political notice. But their happy existence is suddenly shattered when Elias, a journalist, goes missing. A brutal organization is sweeping over the land, infiltrating even the remotest corners, its members cloaking their violence in religious devotion. Helen's search for her husband results in her own captivity and enslavement. She eventually escapes her captors and is reunited with some of her family. But her life is forever changed. Elias remains missing and her sons, now young recruits to the organization, are like strangers. Will she find harmony and happiness again?
- Uniform Title
- Washm altaayir. English
- Alternative Title
- Washm altaayir.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Epic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- History.
- Note
- "Finalist for the International Prize for Arabic fiction."--Cover.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Arabic.
- Call Number
- JFE 23-811
- ISBN
- 1639362789
- 9781639362783
- OCLC
- 1296941324
- 1296941324
- Author
- Mīkhāʼīl, Dunyā, 1965- author.
- Title
- The bird tattoo : a novel / Dunya Mikhail.
- Publisher
- New York : Pegasus Books, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Edition
- First Pegasus Books edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- Translated from the Arabic.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-811