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Title: I, Who Did Not Die
Subtitle: A Sweeping Story of Loss, Redemption, and Fate
Author: Zahed Haftlang, Najah Aboud
Narrator: Mikael Naramore
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-02-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 10 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
Khorramshahr, Iran, May 1982 - It was the bloodiest battle of one of the most brutal wars of the twentieth century, and Najah, a 29-year-old wounded Iraqi conscript, was face to face with a 13-year-old Iranian child soldier who was ordered to kill him. Instead, the boy committed an astonishing act of mercy. It was an act that decades later would save his own life.
This is a remarkable story. It is gut-wrenching, essential, and astonishing. It's a war story. A love story. A story of vast moral dimensions. An eloquent and haunting act of witness to horrors beyond grimmest fiction, and a thing of towering beauty. More importantly, it is a story that must be told, and a richly textured view into an overlooked conflict and misunderstood region. This is the great untold story of the children and young men whose lives were sacrificed at the whim of vicious dictators and pointless, barbaric wars.
Little has been written of the Iran-Iraq war, which was among the most brutal conflicts of the 20th century, one fought with chemical weapons, ballistic missiles, and cadres of child soldiers.
The numbers involved are staggering:
Rarely does this kind of reportage succeed so powerfully as literature. More rarely still does such searingly brilliant literature - fit to stand beside Remarque, Hemingway, and O'Brien - emerge from behind "enemy" lines.
But Zahed, a child, and Najah, a young restaurateur, are rare men - not just survivors, but masterful, wondrously gifted storytellers. Written with award-winning journalist Meredith May, this is literature of a very high order, set down with passion, urgency, and consummate skill. This story is an affirmation that, in the end, it is our humanity that transcends politics and borders and saves us all.
Members Reviews:
A must read! Truly inspiring!
Author Meredith May has written a moving portrayal of two men whose lives were forever altered by the experience, trauma, and horror of war...a protracted armed conflict that claimed countless lives including innocent men, women and children. This book evoked so many emotions as Zahed & Najah delved into their lives and the unimaginable conditions that they had endured and would ultimately survive. There were some tender moments when the men spoke of their loves, their families and their lives in Iraq & Iran, respectively. Some levity was brought to this gripping story as well as the men recounted some humorous times when life was "normal" before the war heated up. In the end I really felt like I had come to know these two remarkable human beings and the kinship that will serve as a bond for the rest of their lives. Author May did a superb job of presenting the reader with a skillful and eloquent account of both Zahed Haftlang and Najah Aboud and the critical moment that brought them together. Highly recommended!
An unforgettable story.
Horrific, humanity, hope, heartwarming. I never would normally read a book on this topic but I saw the story I the news and knew I had to. I was not disappointed! Although the information I learned was hard to digest, it's the for the two men, a truth that I am grateful they shared in such detail. I am glad I knew the backstory before going on however as it gave me hope for the ending.
