President Gardens

Author: Mohsen Al-Ramli Publication date: 2016 Category: Short Stories and Novels Publisher: Dar Al-Mada *** This novel narrates the biography of three friends, and through it, a part of modern Iraqi history over half a century, and how its events reflected on the lives of ordinary people. Wars, sieges, imprisonment in Iran, the invasion of Kuwait, dictatorship, the difference between the nature of life of the authority and the citizens, mass graves, and the chaos of occupation in which one of the three heroes dies as a symbol of Iraqi blood, between remnants of a previous regime and followers of a regime that followed. It enables the reader to understand the complexity of what happened in the land of the two rivers from successive tragedies over recent decades, through an engaging and profound storytelling style with a human touch, and victorious for life despite all difficulties.