The Potato Eaters

Stories

F
Farhad Pirbal
  • Simultaneous release with poetry collection, Refugee 33,333 
  • Poignant stories from one of the greatest modern Kurdish writers by acclaimed translator -- and editor of Phoneme imprint, Shook! 
  • Along with Bakhtyar Ali, one of the most prominent Kurdish writers today 
  • Still living in Kurdistan, though these books have a lot to do with his time in Europe 
  • PhD from the Sorbonne 
  • Had a TV show in Kurdistan; culturally very prominent 
  • This book is probably the most popular book of short stories in Kurdistan
  • Read as a trade edition and in an academic context 
  • Stories primed for placement in high level pubs (Harpers, New Yorker); one of his stories is included in Deep Vellum's upcoming Best Literary Translations 2024 anthology

Publication

2024

Pages

200

Format

Epub

Publisher

Deep Vellum Publishing

Excerpt

EPUB

Translators

Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosseJiyar Homer

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