ASSASSINS OF THE TURQUOISE PALACE
New York: Grove Press, 2011. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page, 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over white boards, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with B&W image of a hand with Arabic writing holding a pistol, blood red endpapers, extensive apparatus (chronology, characters, glossary, bibliography), 322 pages. Very Fine / Very Fine. Item #8394
ISBN: 9780802119117
Roya Hakakian (born 1966) is an Iranian American Jewish poet, journalist, and writer. She takes on the most pressing contemporary sociopolitical issues —exile, persecution, censorship— and injects them with relevance and urgency through her deeply observant and poetic sensibility to make these subjects accessible to all readers.
This is a remarkably well written and documented recounting of the little known assassination of several Kurds by Saddam Hussein's men in 1992.
Very Fine--if not As New--copy in all respects: Tight, bright, clean. No previous owner or remainder marks.
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