I Remember Fallujah

“Feurat Alani’s debut novel is a lyrical journey of remembering, a son’s voyage to salvage fading memories of an amnesiac father and piece together a past too personal and precious to be lost to oblivion. As the protagonist, Euphrates, rediscovers a father and a fatherland, he has to reconcile the personal history with the objective truth. Feurat Alani’s Iraq is not just a country; it becomes any place you and I have been expelled from, a home you and I yearn to return to.” —Ali Araghi, author of The Immortals of Tehran“A profoundly moving novel about the scars and cruelties of history, an unforgettable portrait of Iraq, and a deeply humane story of fathers and sons. I was struck by every page.” —Ayşegül Savaş, author of Walking on the Ceiling and White on White“A poetic novel that reveals a forgotten Iraq.” —TV5Monde “Brilliant…A son’s tribute to his father, a beautiful act of recognition.” —Le Figaro Littéraire“In his poignant first novel, reporter Feurat Alani examines his Iraqi roots and the complexity of filiation.” —Livres Hebdo

Feurat Alani is a French journalist and documentary filmmaker who has spent more than seventeen years reporting across the Middle East. He is the author of two graphic novels, The Flavors of Iraq, which won the Prix Albert-Londres, France’s highest journalism prize, in 2019; and Falloujah, ma campagne perdue (Fallujah, my lost campaign). His work has appeared in a variety of international outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Le Monde Diplomatique, France 24, Mediapart, Al Jazeera, Arte, Canal Plus, and Radio Canada. His debut novel, I Remember Fallujah, received the Arab Literature Prize and the Senghor First Novel Prize, and was a finalist for the Goncourt First Novel Prize. He lives in France and Dubai.

Adriana Hunter studied French and Drama at the University of London. She has translated more than ninety books, including Marc Petitjean’s The Heart- Frida Kahlo in Paris and Herve Le Tellier’s The Anomaly and Electrico W, winner of the French-American Foundation’s 2013 Translation Prize in Fiction. She lives in Kent, England.

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