Review: My Father's Rifle: A Childhood in Kurdistan
User Review - Ava Homa - GoodreadsI loved it. Subtle and deep with so many historical, social and geopolitical references. I could not put it down and found the reading experience a rewarding, insightful and delightful one. I now want to watch all of his movies. Read full review
Review: My Father's Rifle: A Childhood in Kurdistan
User Review - barbka21 - GoodreadsPoetic. Slices of harsh Kurdish history. Read full review
Review: My Father's Rifle: A Childhood in Kurdistan
User Review - Ron - GoodreadsThis short memoir, with its simply told and clearly translated story, tells of a boyhood in Kurdistan, a nation of people divided between four countries: Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria. The struggle ... Read full review
Review: My Father's Rifle: A Childhood in Kurdistan
User Review - Amenah K. - GoodreadsI enjoyed the book, but I was looking for more depth. Read full review
Review: My Father's Rifle: A Childhood in Kurdistan
User Review - Brendan - GoodreadsThere's no arguing that Hiner Saleem, a filmmaker living in Paris and writing in French, is a wonderful storyteller. In the 99 pages of his new memoir, My Father's Rifle: A Childhood in Kurdistan, he ... Read full review
Review: My Father's Rifle: A Childhood in Kurdistan
User Review - Osho - GoodreadsIraq (Kurdistan) Reviewers aren't clear whether this is fiction or memoir. It appears to be best treated as "fictionalized memoir." Azad Selim is a young boy in Iraqi Kurdistan. As the Baathist regime ... Read full review
Review: My Father's Rifle: A Childhood in Kurdistan
User Review - Shawn Sinclair - GoodreadsThis is the first hand account of a young Kurdish boy growing up in Northern Iraq. The book really informed me of the love the Kurdish people took in their art, poetry, and beautiful landscape, and ... Read full review
Review: My Father's Rifle: A Childhood in Kurdistan
User Review - peter - GoodreadsA refugee from Kurdistan, now a filmmaker in Paris, recalls his childhood in northern Iraq, before and during the rise of Saddam and the Baath butchers. The narrator, like everyone else, is intent on ... Read full review
