I Remember Fallujah

In this poignant first novel of memory, identity, and generational trauma, a child of political refugees tries to uncover the past his dying father kept secret, painting a powerful, layered portrait of Iraq from the 1950s to the 2000s.bAt the beginning of the 1970s, the young Rami decided to flee the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. A political refugee in France, he is a taciturn man, evasive about his past. At the end of his life, hospitalized for cancer treatment, Rami suddenly suffers from amnesia. His memories seem to have stopped somewhere between Iraq and France. "I remember Fallujah," he says to his son, Euphrates, who sees it as an opportunity to finally discover his father´s story