"Like a Scent of Lavender" by Sinan Antoon: Fragments of Iraq
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Sinan Antoon has written a beautiful novel about uprooting, centered around the fates of two Iraqi refugees in the United States. ZUMA PRESS/MAXPPP
A great voice of Arabic literature, Sinan Antoon has written a beautiful book about uprooting and memory, based on the intertwined destinies of two Iraqi refugees in the United States.
What remains of a country when you leave it? A language (although living in the United States since 1991, Sinan Antoon writes his novels only in Arabic), reminiscences of music, sounds, smells. Memories. But memories are fragile. The two heroes of Like the Scent of Lavender, Sinan Antoon's third and beautiful novel, are each struggling with their own memories.
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