Sins & Innocents Sonmez Burhan Paperback
Sins & Innocents Sonmez Burhan Paperback "My past was behind a curtain. I had to see her so I could open the curtain of both the future and the past." Two young people from foreign lands meet in a…
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Sins & Innocents Sonmez Burhan Paperback
"My past was behind a curtain. I had to see her so I could open the curtain of both the future and the past." Two young people from foreign lands meet in a shop in Cambridge: Brani Tawo, a Kurdish political refugee from Turkey, and Feruzeh, who had fled to the UK from revolutionary Iran. I had to go to Feruzeh.
Brani Tawo narrates vignettes from his family history, vivid tales that evoke old legends: shepherds struck by lightning, soldiers returning home with war trauma, blood feuds that destroy families, bears mauling villagers in search of stolen cubs and a photographer who carries news to the villages in the form of the portraits he takes. Slowly, their love begins to grow, fed by stories, a shared love of literature and a subtle recognition of their mutual displacement. These dark, inherited memories, combined with his own melancholy nature and chronic insomnia, weigh on Brani Tawo,