The President's Gardens av Muhsin Al-Ramli

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<p><b><i>One Hundred Years of Solitude</i> meets <i>The Kite Runner </i>in Saddam Hussein''s Iraq. </b><br><br><b>"A contemporary tragedy of epic proportions. No author is better placed than Muhsin Al-Ramli, already a star in the Arabic literary scene, to tell this story. I read it in one sitting". </b><br><b>Hassan Blasim, winner of the <i>Independent</i> Foreign Fiction Prize for <i>The Iraqi Christ. </i></b><br><br>On the third day of Ramadan, the village wakes to find the severed heads of nine of its sons stacked in banana crates by the bus stop.<br><br>One of them belonged to one of the most wanted men in Iraq, known to his friends as Ibrahim the Fated.<br><br>How did this good and humble man earn the enmity of so many? What did he do to deserve such a death?<br><br>The answer lies in his lifelong friendship with Abdullah Kafka and Tariq the Befuddled, who each have their own remarkable stories to tell.<br><br>It lies on the scarred, irradiated battlefields of the Gulf War and in