The bird tattoo : a novel /

The bird tattoo : a novel /

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Author / Creator:	Mīkhāʼīl, Dunyā, 1965- author.
Uniform title:	Washm altaayir. English
Edition:	First Pegasus Books edition.
Imprint:	New York : Pegasus Books, 2022. ©2022
Description:	268 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Yezidi women -- Fiction. Families -- Iraq -- Fiction. Religious militants -- Iraq -- Fiction. Arabic fiction. Arabic fiction. Families. Religious militants. Yezidi women. Sinjār (Iraq) -- Fiction. Iraq -- History -- Fiction. Iraq. Iraq -- Sinjār. Epic fiction. Fiction. Historical fiction. History. Historical fiction. Epic fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13012287

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ISBN:	1639362789 9781639362783
Notes:	"Finalist for the International Prize for Arabic fiction."--Cover. Translated from the Arabic.
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?

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