May the tigris grieve for you

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This short, devastating novella unfolds in the voices of the members of an Iraqi family at the time of the Iraq War, is a painfully personal and coldly beautiful telling of the intimate tragedy of an honour killing. The principal narrator is a young unmarried woman who realises that she is pregnant. She knows this means she will be killed by her elder brother when he returns home that evening. As the day inches towards its inevitable dénouement, the story of the family unfolds, through vignettes in the voice of each family member: a delicate courtship, snatched moments, reticence and frustration all offering the sensation of what it is to be female or male in this stifling world.

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Rural Iraq, during the war against the so-called Islamic State. A pregnancy out of wedlock. The young woman knows her fate is sealed. In crystalline prose May the Tigris Grieve for You enters the minds of all protagonists, before and after death; fragments of the legend of Gilgamesh, the Mesopotamian hero who carries along the memory of the country and its people, punctuate the family members’ short monologues, spaced with the mythical voice of the Tigris River, who has seen it all. Inspired by her experience of Iraq’s complex reality and brutal wars, Malfatto delivers an uncompromising yet compassionate insight into a rigid society ruled by fathers and sons, a world in which life matters less than honour. Winner of the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman 2021.

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Weight 0.104 kg
Dimensions 12 × 20.1 × 1.1 cm
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Paperback
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English
Edition

Paperback original
Dewey

843.92 (edition:23)
Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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