The Man in Blue Pyjamas

A Prison Memoir

2011 INDIES Finalist
Finalist, Autobiography & Memoir (Adult Nonfiction)
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For Kurdish poet Jalal Barzanji, life has been a series of displacements and exiles. In 1963, when Barzanji was seven, Iraqi forces launched a brutal military campaign against the Kurds. His village of Ashkaftsaqa was decimated, forcing his family to flee to Hawler, capital of the Kurdistan... Read More