Sener Ozmen, The Competition of Unfinished Stories. Translated by Nicholas Glastonbury. Sandorf Passage, 2025. 240 pages. At the next meeting of the Kurdish Book Club, we’ll be discussing The Competition
Alesa Lightbourne, The Kurdish Bike: A Novel. Published by the author, 2016. On January 2 our Book Club discussed The Kurdish Bike. The author, Alesa Lightbourne, participated in the discussion.
On November 6 the Book Club discussed Mountain Language, a short play by Harold Pinter. Mountain Langauge is set in a prison in an unnamed country. The prisoners are not
Ava Homa, Daughters of Smoke and Fire: A Novel. Overlook Press, 2020. Daughters of Smoke and Fire was one of the first novels written in English by a Kurdish woman.
The Smell of Wet Bricks by Chiya Parvizpur (Transnational Press London, 2024). The Book Club discussed this novel on September 3. The author was present for our discussion. The author,
Hiner Saleem, My Father’s Rifle: A Childhood in Kurdistan. Translated by Catherine Temerson. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004. Originally published in French as Le Fusil de mon père.
Ebru Ojen, Lojman, translated from Turkish by Aron Aji and Selin Gökcesu. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2023. The Kurdish Book Club discussed Lojman on June 4, 2024. The co-translator
“Whispering Walls” by Choman Hardi Choman Hardi, Whispering Walls (Afsana Press, 2023). In the tense weeks leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, three siblings—two in London, one in
“Honor” by Elif Shafak On March 5 our book club discussed: Elif Shafak, Honor (New York: Viking, 2013), 354 pages The novel is set in the 1960s and ’70s and
“Stone and Shadow” by Burhan Sönmez Burhan Sönmez, Stone and Shadow. Translated by Alexander Dawe. Other Press, 2023. Burhan Sönmez is the author of five novels, translated into 48 languages.
