‘The Hate of the New Springs,’ a Novel by Bakhtiar Ali

“The Hate of the New Springs” is a novel by Bakhtiar Ali, a contemporary Kurdish writer, translated by Marivan Halabjayi and published by Nimaj Publishing. This novel, like the author’s other works, deals with human existence and our past and lost loves. “The Hate of the New Springs” is a philosophical novel about a man who, in old age, returns to his past to remember his loves.

The book’s back cover reads: “I was not afraid of drowning. I was afraid of the depths of the sea. It has been many years since I last saw the blue of the sea. The last time I was here, a piece of my soul remained, a small piece that I am now searching for, a tiny piece no larger than a dove’s egg. Now I am a captain with a broken ship, and the wind no longer moves my vessel. I surrender my ship to the waves to see where they will take it, to which shore, to which rock.”

Bakhtiar Ali was born in 1960 in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. He is a novelist, poet, and literary critic. The first Persian translation of his work, “The World’s Last Pomegranate,” was published by Arghavan Publications, translated by Marivan Halabjayi. “The City of White Musicians,” “Ghazalnus and the Gardens of Imagination,” “My Uncle Jamshid Khan, Who the Wind Always Carried Away,” “The Death of the Second Only Child,” and “The Ships of the Angels of Sin” are some of the other works by this author that have been translated into Persian.

The novel “The Hate of the New Springs” by Bakhtiar Ali, translated by Marivan Halabjayi, has been published by Nimaj in 192 pages with a price of 200,000 Tomans.