Disoriental

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  • BTBA Best Translated Book Award Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2019)
  • PEN Translation Prize Nominee for Tina Kover (2019)
  • Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction (2018)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Translated Literature (2018)
  • Prix du Style (2016)
  • Prix Première (2017)
  • Prix de l'Algue d'Or Nominee (2017)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2020)
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Disoriental

Regular price $13.13
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ISBN: 9781787701557
Publisher: Europa Editions UK
Date of Publication: 2018-11-29
Format: Paperback
Related Topics: Queer, LGBT
Goodreads rating: 4.21
(rated by 5418 readers)

Description

In this high-spirited, kaleidoscopic story, key moments of Iranian history, politics, and culture punctuate stories of family drama and triumph.Kimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five and facing the future she has built for herself as well as the prospect of a new generation, Kimiâ is inundated by her own memories and the stories of her ancestors, which come to her in unstoppable, uncontainable waves. In the waiting room of a Parisian fertility clinic, generations of flamboyant Sadrs return to her, including her formidable great-grandfather Montazemolmolk, with his harem of fifty-two wives, and her parents, Darius and Sara, stalwart opponents of each regime that befalls them.It is Kimiâ herself––punk-rock aficionado, storyteller extraordinaire, a Scheherazade of our time, and above all a modern woman divided between family traditions and her own “disorientalization”––who forms the heart of this bestselling and beloved novel.
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