{"product_id":"the-bird-tattoo-hardcover","title":"The Bird Tattoo - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDunya Mikhail\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful and sweeping novel set over two tumultuous decades in Iraq from the National Book Award-nominated author of \u003ci\u003eThe Beekeeper.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHelen 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For readers of Elif Shafak, Samar Yazbek's \u003ci\u003ePlanet of Clay\u003c\/i\u003e, or Ahmed Saadawi's \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein in Baghdad, \u003c\/i\u003eDunya Mikhail's \u003ci\u003eThe Bird Tattoo \u003c\/i\u003echronicles a world of great upheaval, love and loss, beauty and horror, and will stay in readers' minds long after the last page.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDunya Mikhail\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Baghdad, Iraq. After graduating from the University of Baghdad, she worked as a journalist and translator for the \u003ci\u003eBaghdad Observer.\u003c\/i\u003e Facing censorship and interrogation, she left Iraq, first to Jordan and then to America, settling in Detroit. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, \u003ci\u003eThe Iraqi Nights\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDiary of A Wave Outside the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe War Works Hard, \u003c\/i\u003echosen as one the New York Public Library's Books to Remember, as well as her edited volume, \u003ci\u003eFifteen \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eIraqi Poets\u003c\/i\u003e. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Knights Foundation grant, a Kresge Fellowship, and the United Nations Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing, and works as a special lecturer of Arabic at Oakland University in Michigan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.25 x 6.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 06, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766118154528,"sku":"9781639362783","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0dc2b4c1fb7c6bf45fd488c7af1daaff.webp?v=1780285960","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-bird-tattoo-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}