{"product_id":"buy-the-presidents-gardens-muhsin-al-ramli-conf20260630319","title":"The President's Gardens (Muhsin Al-Ramli)","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThe President's Gardens (Muhsin Al-Ramli)\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Author: Muhsin Al-Ramli \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Series: The President's Gardens \u0026amp; Daughter of the Tigris \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e About Book \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Publisher: MacLehose \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Published date: 2017 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Pages: 352 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e isbn: 9780857056788 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e GoodReads Rating: 4.1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e Condition \u0026amp; Size \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Size: Format B (Medium Format) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Book Type: Paperback \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e Condition: Very Good \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e Summary\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nThe President's Gardens is an epic novel about Saddam Hussein's Iraq, following the lives of three friends from the beginning of the Iran-Iraq War to the aftermath of the American invasion.\n\n\nAbdullah loses twenty years to Iranian captivity before returning to learn the terrible truth of his birth. Tariq, the son of the local Sheik, avoids the army, and becomes a man of power and influence, able to help his friends but always careful to keep his own interests closest to his heart. Ibrahim loses a foot in the first Gulf War and his wife to cancer before taking on a menial job in the gardens of one of the president's many palaces - a job whose responsibilities will escalate beyond his wildest imaginings.\n\n\nThe multiple, multi-generational stories woven together in The President's Gardens are brought to life by a vivid and memorable cast of characters, and may remind the reader of The Kite-Runner, The Yellow Birds and One Hundred Years of Solitude. Epic in scope, moving, philosophical and true, it packs an ocean of wisdom in its 400 pages, and has much to impart about war and oppression, love and marriage, fathers and daughters, and what it means to live under a murderous, totalitarian regime. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Al-Ramli, Muhsin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43180722159693,"sku":"CONF20260630319","price":89.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/3856\/4685\/files\/9780857056788_20260628_104153.jpg?v=1782817554","url":"https:\/\/readmatter.co.za\/products\/buy-the-presidents-gardens-muhsin-al-ramli-conf20260630319","provider":"Readmatter","version":"1.0","type":"link"}