Farhad Pirbal is a Kurdish writer described in Porochista Khakpour’s introduction as “that rare, near mythic true original.” Certainly, you are unlikely to find a collection of short stories quite like The Potato Eaters, translated by Jiyar Homer and Marie Levinson-LaBrosse, which introduces Pirbal to an English-reading audience (a companion volume of his poetry, Refugee […]
