The Forgotten Tale Of Larsa - Couverture souple

Majeed, Seja

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0992905508 ISBN 13 : 9780992905507

Editeur : Bluebird Publishing House, 2014

Synopsis

No other story can give you a better understanding of humanity and mankind's struggle for power. A best seller in its first week on sale, ranking at #4 on Amazon's Kindle for Young Adult fiction on Ancient Civilisation. The Forgotten Tale of Larsa is an epic story inspired by love, though forgotten by history. In a quest to be worshipped as a god, the almighty Assyrian Emperor Jaquzan wages war against a kingdom known only as the Garden of the Gods. Its beauty is said to have inspired the creation of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. With the threat of war looming, the Gallant Warrior Marmicus urges his love, Princess Larsa, to seek refuge beyond her kingdom’s walls. As she makes her way to safety, her Royal Caravan is captured by the enemy; everyone is slaughtered apart from the princess, who is taken to the Assyrian emperor to be his slave. During her captivity, the once naive princess discovers her inner strength, and learns the true meaning of war and tyranny, when she battles to save herself and the Garden of the Gods from the burning fires of hell.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Seja Majeed is a British Iraqi with an Honours degree in law from Brunel Law School and a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the City Law School, London. She also has a diploma in Leadership and Public Policy from the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. She has worked for Shell International Petroleum within the United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates and Iraq. Seja’s family left Iraq in 1980 due to the Iran–Iraq War, and Seja was born in 1986 in Algeria. One year later, her family moved to the United Kingdom, where they claimed asylum due to civil unrest escalating in Algeria. In 1980 her uncle, Naeem Al-taki, was executed by hanging at the age of twenty-one, due to joining a university club that spoke out against Iraq’s Ba’ath regime. In 1986, another uncle, Helmi Al-taki, was taken by the Ba’ath regime. He was placed in Abu Ghraib Prison in Baghdad, where he was frequently tortured. Seja’s mother was pregnant with Seja at the time. He was last seen in 1991. For many years, Seja’s family searched for Helmi Al-taki, but it was only in 2003, after the collapse of the Ba’ath regime, that they realised he was most likely buried in a mass grave, since he was not released from prison. To this day, Seja’s family have no idea what happened to him, or how he may have died. Seja says, ‘From the moment I was born I knew about war and death, without anyone having to explain it to me. It became a part of my being, to know that people were hungry to kill and destroy everything around them. I was helpless to do anything but comfort my mother. I would hear her cry, knowing that so much injustice had been done to her family. She had lost everything, except her hope that maybe she would find her brother alive.’ Her novel is dedicated to her uncles and her homeland. www.theforgottentaleoflarsa.com www.instagram.com/sejamajeed

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bluebird Publishing House
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0992905508
• ISBN 13: 9780992905507
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 424
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