Showing results for "Mesopotamia" in Genre Fiction

Vous ne la connaissez pas, pourtant elle a tenu le monde entre ses mains. Au lendemain de la Première Guerre mondiale, Gertrude Bell a dessiné les frontières de l’Orient, dans ce désert sauvage où tout a commencé : le pays entre les deux fleuves, le Tigre et l’Euphrate. Aventurière, archéologue, espionne, parlant l’arabe et le persan, elle fut la femme la plus puissante de l’Empire britannique, mais aussi une héroïne tragique. Idéaliste comme son ami et frère d’âme Lawrence d’Arabie. Impérialiste et courageuse comme le jeune Winston Churchill.

Saleh Abdoh, the narrator of Out of Mesopotamia, is a middle-aged Iranian journalist who moonlights as a writer for one of Iran's most popular TV shows, but cannot keep himself away from the front lines in neighboring Iraq and Syria. There, the fight against the Islamic State is a proxy war, an existential battle, a declaration of faith, and, for some, a passing weekend affair. After weeks spent dodging RPGs and witnessing acts of savagery and stupidity, he returns to his civilian life of Tehran bookstore readings and trendy art openings, finding it to be unbearably dislocating.

Edith and Frances, living with their mother on a tiny farm in the south-east of Australia, are visited by their cousin Leopold and his Armenian friend Aram. The two young men are taking the long way home after working on an archaeological dig in Iraq. It is 1937. The modern world they say, is waiting to erupt. Among the tales they tell is the story of Gilgamesh, the legendary king of Uruk, in ancient Mesopotamia.