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set in a city few have travelled to

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The Age of Orphans Michael Walters set in a city fewKurdistan, Persia. A village high in the Zagros mountains. A small green eyed boy wrestles free from his mother and climbs atop a straw and mud hut to gaze at the dusty landscape; the jagged mountains and azure sky, the cattle in the distance. With his arms stretched out beside him he pretends to be a bird, to lift up and soar over this land: the land of his fathers and forefathers. Kurdish land. Soon after the boy is ritually initiated into manhood,