My father's rifle : a childhood in Kurdistan /
Hiner Saleem ; translated from the French by Catherine Temerson.
- 1st Picador ed.
- New York : Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006, c2004.
- 102 p ; 21 cm.
Translation of: Fusil de mon père.
Saleem Hiner shares the story of his coming of age in the 1960s and 70s in a Kurdish village in Iraq, discussing his childhood home, his family's incarceration in a refugee camp in Iran, their lives under the rule of Saddam Hussein, his stint as a Kurdish rebel, and his decision to flee to freedom.