Novel Depicts Love In War Torn Iraq
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Summer, 1987. In the mountainous village of Bergalou, northern Iraq, it literally started raining birds. The poor animals dropped mid-flight when the Saddam Hussein administration dropped chemical bombs on the Kurds, a persecuted ethnic minority.
Temporarily blinded by the toxic attack, Joanna is saved by her husband Sarbast, a “peshmerga,” or Kurdish freedom fighter. The two [...]
