Éditeur : iUniverse | Date & Lieu : 2009-01-01, Bloomington |
Préface : | Pages : 357 |
Traduction : | | ISBN : 978-1440-178-16-0 |
Langue : Anglais | Format : 150x230 mm |
Code FIKP : Liv. Ang. 3314 | Thème : Politique |
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The Passion and Death of Rahman the Kurd: Dreaming Kurdistan "Against the backdrop of the revolution that overthrew the Shah and through the shadowy back streets of the Cold War, Carol Prunhuber's Passion andDeath ofRahman the Kurd resurrects the doomed trajectory of assassinated Kurdish leader Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou. "A portrait against the grain: not a peshmerga with his bandolier, but a nationalist intellectual in a well-tailored suit turned movable target far from the Kurdish mountains. A Third World aristocrat who will quickly veer off the Marxist road from revolution to democracy. Jean-Marc Illouz |
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Copyright © 2009 by Carol Prunhuber Translation copyright © 2009 by Carol Prunhuber and Ellen Porter All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or by any information storage retrieval system, without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. iUniverse books may be ordered through booksellers or by contacting: Because af the dynamic nature ofthe Internet, any Web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby diselaims any responsibility for them. ISBN: 978-1-4401-7816-0 (sc) Revision and expansion of a first edition published in Spanish by Alfa Editores,
Venezuelan writer CAROL PRUNHUBER was educated in Caracas and Paris, where she completed her doctorate in literature. She began her career as a freelance journalist in Paris, then as a foreign correspondent in Madrid. In 1985, she traveled to Kurdistan with a French TV crew to film the Kurdish conflict in Iran, where she became immersed in the plight of the Kurdish people. This book, twenty years in the making, is a distillation of her passionate concern. |