The President'S Gardens (The President'S Gardens & Daughter Of The Tigris #1) (Mushin Al-Ramli)
New
1 was available
R99.00
0% off
Shipping
Free shipping is available from ReadMatter Bookstore for all orders above R899.00, using one of our trusted couriers. Check my rate
Free collection is available from various lockers and counter collection points across South Africa, for all orders above R899.00 from ReadMatter Bookstore View locations
The seller has indicated that they will usually have this item
ready to ship within 10 business days.
Shipping time depends on your delivery address.
The most accurate delivery time will be calculated at checkout,
but in general, the following shipping times apply:
The President's Gardens is an epic novel about Saddam Hussein's Iraq, following the lives of three friends from the beginning of the Iran-Iraq War to the aftermath of the American invasion.
Abdullah loses twenty years to Iranian captivity before returning to learn the terrible truth of his birth. Tariq, the son of the local Sheik, avoids the army, and becomes a man of power and influence, able to help his friends but always careful to keep his own interests closest to his heart. Ibrahim loses a foot in the first Gulf War and his wife to cancer before taking on a menial job in the gardens of one of the president's many palaces - a job whose responsibilities will escalate beyond his wildest imaginings.
The multiple, multi-generational stories woven together in The President's Gardens are brought to life by a vivid and memorable cast of characters, and may remind the reader of The Kite-Runner, The Yellow Birds and One Hundred Years of Solitude. Epic in scope, moving, philosophical and true, it packs an ocean of wisdom in its 400 pages, and has much to impart about war and oppression, love and marriage, fathers and daughters, and what it means to live under a murderous, totalitarian regime.
