Birds in a Gale
Language: English
Published by Common Notions, GB, 2026
- Softcover
- New
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A kaleidoscopic novel of politics, identity, and dislocation in the wake of the Islamic Revolution. Some years after the overthrow of the Shah, Mehraban has returned to Iran after a period of wandering and isolation to write the story of a famed Kurdish revolutionary named Farhad. Guided by our unnamed narrator, Mehraban pursues his story and its living-dead subject, learning that he and Farhad share bittersweet memories of a lost love amid fractured historical nightmares. Trapped in consciousness, trapped by mortality, trapped in a world that is not and cannot be objective, Birds in a Gale turns in on itself, entangling Mehraban's and Farhad's once-separate identities irrevocably, before rejecting the objective altogether.Originally published in 2002, Birds in a Gale 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 revolutionary history. 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.…
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- Title
- Birds in a Gale
- Author
- Ata Nahai
- Publisher
- Common Notions, GB
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1945335459
- ISBN 13
- 9781945335457
- Item weight
- 249 grams
- Dimensions
- 13.97 x 5.08 x 21.59 cm
A kaleidoscopic novel of politics, identity, and dislocation in the wake of the Islamic Revolution. Some years after the overthrow of the Shah, Mehraban has returned to Iran after a period of wandering and isolation to write the story of a famed Kurdish revolutionary named Farhad. Guided by our unnamed narrator, Mehraban pursues his story and its living-dead subject, learning that he and Farhad share bittersweet memories of a lost love amid fractured historical nightmares. Trapped in consciousness, trapped by mortality, trapped in a world that is not and cannot be objective, Birds in a Gale turns in on itself, entangling Mehraban’s and Farhad’s once-separate identities irrevocably, before rejecting the objective altogether.
Originally published in 2002, Birds in a Gale 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 revolutionary history. 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.
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About the Author
Ata Nahai is a Kurdish novelist and short story writer who writes in Sorani Kurdish. His writing has been translated into Persian, Arabic, Kurmanji, and English. He has been awarded the Aras Prize for Kurdish literature and the Ahmad Hardi Prize for Creativity in Sulaymaniyah. The Persian translations of Birds in a Gale and his latest novel, Dealing Helaleh's Destiny, won the prestigious Mehregan Prize for Best Novel of the Year in Iran in consecutive years.
Chiya Parvizpur is a Kurdish writer and translator working in both Kurdish and English. His English work has been published by Transnational London Press, Whisper House Press, Henar Press, and Common Notions.
Hourieh Maleki Qouzloo is a Kurdish writer, translator, and researcher with over two decades of teaching experience across language and literature. She is currently pursuing research on cultural hybridity in migration literature.
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