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    Disoriental

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    ISBN: 9781787702042
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    AuthorDjavadi, Negar
    Pub Date05/09/2019
    BindingPaperback
    Pages352
    Publisher: EUROPA EDITIONS (UK) LTD
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    The story of a young girl and her family, at the core of an exploration of Iranian history.

    WINNER
    2019 Albertine Prize
    2019 Lambda Literary Award
    Prix du Style
    Prix de la Porte Doree
    2016 Lire Best Debut Novel
    Le Prix du Roman News

    Now in B-format Paperback

    Kimia 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, with a new life and the prospect of a child, Kimia is inundated by her own memories and the stories of her ancestors, which reach 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.
    In this high-spirited, kaleidoscopic story, key moments of Iranian history, politics, and culture punctuate stories of family drama and triumph. Yet it is Kimia 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.

    "In her remarkable novel, Negar Djavadi beautifully captures the "disorientation" of exile and the attempt to reconstruct a self through family stories." - The New York Times

    "The novel pulsates with life but does not shirk from violence. The gorgeous prose...takes the edge off the relentless turmoil described throughout." - The Financial Times

    "A momentous saga of modern Iran." - Publishers Weekly