{"product_id":"birds-in-a-gale","title":"Birds in a Gale","description":"\u003ch1\u003eBirds in a Gale\u003c\/h1\u003eAta Nahai\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Common Notions\u003cbr\u003eDecember 2 2025\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9781945335457\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 1945335459\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA kaleidoscopic novel of politics, identity, and dislocation in the wake of the Islamic Revolution.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome years after the overthrow of the Shah, Mehraban has returned to Iran after a period of wandering and exile to write the story of a famed Kurdish revolutionary named Farhad. Guided by our unnamed narrator, Mehraban pursues his story and its mysterious living-dead subject, learning that he and Farhad share bittersweet memories of lost love amid fractured historical nightmares. Trapped in consciousness, trapped by mortality, trapped in a world that is not and cannot be comprehended, \u003ci\u003eBirds in a Gale\u003c\/i\u003e turns in on itself, entangling Mehraban's and Farhad's once-separate identities irrevocably before rejecting the objective altogether.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 2002, \u003ci\u003eBirds in a Gale\u003c\/i\u003e is a poignant, psychological, and deeply political effort by one of Kurdistan's best-loved writers to restore the Kurds to their rightful place in the history of the revolution. This inventive metatext, lucidly translated by Chiya Parvizpur and Hourieh Maleki Qouzloo, is reminiscent of the best of George Saunders and Elias Khoury, and an instant classic of twenty-first-century world literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67391537905709,"sku":"WHS-2e7b5d6ab05c440db7fda37b8db9785b","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_bd23ecc8-96e5-4cce-8cfb-5b656f2f4db0.jpg?v=1787355142","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/birds-in-a-gale","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}