Ṭashshārī : riwāyah /
Kajahʹjī, Inʻām,
Ṭashshārī : riwāyah / Inʻām Kajahjī. - al-Ṭabʻah al-thāniyah. - Bayrūt : Dār al-Jadīd, 2014. - 252 pages ; 22 cm
Novel.
Tashari deals with the tragedy of Iraqi displacement of the past few decades, through the life story of a female doctor working in the countryside in southern Iraq in the 1950s. The narrative also follows her three children, who now live in three different continents, particularly her eldest daughter who has also become a doctor and works in a remote region of Canada. The title of the novel, 'Tashari', is an Iraqi word referring to a shot from a hunting rifle which is scattered in several directions. Iraqis use it as a symbol of loss and being dispersed across the globe. As a way of combating the dispersal of his own family, one of the characters, Alexander, constructs a virtual graveyard online, where he buries the family dead and allots to each person scattered across the globe his/her own personal plot.
In Arabic.
9789953110097 9953110093
Physicians--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Arabic fiction--Iraq--21st century.
Iraq--21st century--Fiction.
Arabic language materials.
Ṭashshārī : riwāyah / Inʻām Kajahjī. - al-Ṭabʻah al-thāniyah. - Bayrūt : Dār al-Jadīd, 2014. - 252 pages ; 22 cm
Novel.
Tashari deals with the tragedy of Iraqi displacement of the past few decades, through the life story of a female doctor working in the countryside in southern Iraq in the 1950s. The narrative also follows her three children, who now live in three different continents, particularly her eldest daughter who has also become a doctor and works in a remote region of Canada. The title of the novel, 'Tashari', is an Iraqi word referring to a shot from a hunting rifle which is scattered in several directions. Iraqis use it as a symbol of loss and being dispersed across the globe. As a way of combating the dispersal of his own family, one of the characters, Alexander, constructs a virtual graveyard online, where he buries the family dead and allots to each person scattered across the globe his/her own personal plot.
In Arabic.
9789953110097 9953110093
Physicians--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Arabic fiction--Iraq--21st century.
Iraq--21st century--Fiction.
Arabic language materials.