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- ISBN 9781838490492
- Dimensions: 120 x 200mm
- Publication Date: 25 Apr 2023
- Publisher: Les Fugitives
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Rural Iraq, during the war against the so-called Islamic State. A pregnancy out of wedlock. The young woman knows her fate is sealed. In crystalline prose May the Tigris Grieve for You enters the minds of all protagonists, before and after death; fragments of the legend of Gilgamesh, the Mesopotamian hero who carries along the memory of the country and its people, punctuate the family members' short monologues, spaced with the mythical voice of the Tigris River, who has seen it all.; Inspired by her experience of Iraq's complex reality and brutal wars, Malfatto delivers an uncompromising yet compassionate insight into a rigid society ruled by fathers and sons, a world in which life matters less than honour. Winner of the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman 2021.
Emilienne Malfatto is a journalist and photographer whose work has appeared in the Washington Post and New York Times, among other places. She studied in France and Colombia, and worked for the French international news agency AFP before going freelance. She is the author of two novels, Que sur toi se lamente le tigre (winner of the 2021 Goncourt Debut Novel Prize) and Le colonel ne dort pas (published in 2022), as well as the work of investigative journalism Les serpents viendront pour toi, winner of the 2021 Prix Albert-Londres.
