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1) Foreigner
Author
Publisher
W. Norton
Pub. Date
1979, c1978
Language
English
Description
Feri, an Iranian woman in her thirties, left Iran to study and work in the United States, where she married an American and settled down. Now, after fourteen years, she has returned to Iran to visit her family. Unexpectedly, she finds herself pulled by the old culture, where she will confront as never before the question of where she belongs and how she wants to live. Originally written in 1978.
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A sweeping, propulsive novel about the families we are born into and the families we make for ourselves, in which two brothers struggle to find their place in an Iran on the brink of combusting Amid the alleyways of the Zamzam neighborhood of Tehran, a woman lights herself on fire in a desperate act of defiance, setting off a chain reaction of violence and protest. Haunted by the woman's death, Issa is forced to confront the contradictions within...
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