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At the start of the summer we were lucky enough to receive funding to slowly start to build up our collection of Sorani-language books. Through the marvellous network that is the land of booklovers and literature enthusiasts we reached Kaveh, a Kurdish journalist currently living in Germany and Sara, the founders of Kitêbhên, an onlineContinue reading “The diverse world of Kurdish literature”

Hoda Barakat’s latest book won the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. It brings together the stories of six people who write after discovering the mainly incomplete or unsent letters of those before them. They are outsiders, migrants, refugees, foreigners. Through this book we gain brief but intense insights into their lives and how theyContinue reading “ECHO Book of the Week: the Night Mail”

T. S. Eliot’s The Wasteland is a masterpiece that speaks of the misery and trauma of war but in a way that was to change poetry forever. In the library we have it in Farsi for all our keen poetry afficionados out there. Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count,Continue reading “ECHO Book of the Week: the Wasteland”

Nizar Qabbani, Syrian poet of love, is a frequently requested poet in the library. This collection, “Illuminations” came a couple of months ago from al-Saqi bookshop in London. Is has already been loaned 3 times and it is not the only collection of Qabbani’s poetry that we have! My love asks, what is the differenceContinue reading “ECHO Book of the Week: Illuminations”

Doctor Zhivago is a complex saga first published in 1957 by Boris Pasternak. Set around the Russian Revolution and the First World War it follows the trajectories of many different characters from all walks of life as they endure the highs and lows of this tumultuous time. The version in the library is an earlyContinue reading “ECHO Book of the Week: Dr Zhivago”

Heathcliff? Yes, it’s the stormy, bleak tale of unfulfilled love by Emily Bronte, translated into Farsi. “If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.” Emily Bronte

Από Μακριά (from far away) is a beautiful new children’s book by Aggeliki Tharlasi. It narrates the tale of Roma girl Ali, her magical voice and how the children of a local town slowly discover the richness of building friendships with people who are different.The story tackles the thorny issue of how racist attitudes canContinue reading “ECHO Book of the Week:”

A Turkish translation of the Whole Brained Child is available at ECHO! Many of our readers across the language groups are interested in psychology and sociology. With a lot of young parents in the camps this book is of particular interest in understanding our brain and how essential the early years are for children’s development.Continue reading “ECHO Book of the Week: The Whole-Brained Child”

The novel that brought magical realism to the fore in literature – Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s 100 years of solitude is in the library in Farsi translation. It’s not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing their dreams. Gabriel Garcia Marquez