Les Grottes de Haydrahodahus

by Salim Barakat, Bayan Salman (Translator)

Les Hodahus, un peuple de centaures vivant sous l'autorité d'un despote, ne possèdent que la moitié de leurs rêves, l'autre appartenant à leurs partenaires de vie. Le mythe d'Orsine, un homme sur deux pattes qui disposerait de la totalité de son rêve, commence à se répandre dans le royaume. Une réflexion sur le lien social, l'identité individuelle et collective et le pouvoir de l'imagination.

144 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Salim Barakat is a Kurdish-Syrian novelist and poet, born in Qamishli, northern Syria, in 1951. He studied Arabic language in Damascus for a year, before moving to Beirut in 1972, where he published five collections of poetry, two novels and two volumes of autobiography. In 1982, he moved to Cyprus to work as an editor on the prestigious Palestinian literary journal Al-Carmel, under its chief editor Mahmoud Darwish. Whilst there, he published a further seven novels and five poetry collections. In 1999, he moved to Sweden, where he now lives. His work explores aspects of Arab, Kurdish, Assyrian, Armenian and other cultures found in northern Syria.