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by Négar Djavadi
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Availability:In StockContributor:Négar Djavadi, Tina Kover (Translator)Publish date:2025-06-03Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Europa EditionsISBN-13:9798889661252UPC:9798889661252Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Sagas, Historical, Cultural HeritageSize:8.10 x 5.30 x 1.20 inchesWeight:0.84Product ID:SCQ6XD50RJ

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 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.


"A wonder and a pleasure to read."--Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances

Language:EnglishPublisher:Europa EditionsISBN-13:9798889661252UPC:9798889661252Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Sagas, Historical, Cultural HeritageSize:8.10 x 5.30 x 1.20 inchesWeight:0.84Product ID:SCQ6XD50RJ
Djavadi, Négar: -

Négar Djavadi was born in Iran in 1969 to a family of intellectuals opposed to the regimes both of the Shah, then of Khomeini. She arrived in France at the age of eleven, having crossed the mountains of Kurdistan on horseback with her mother and sister. She is a screenwriter and lives in Paris. Disoriental is her first novel.

Kover, Tina: -

Tina Kover's translations for Europa Editions include Anne Berest's bestselling novel The Postcard, Antoine Compagnon's A Summer with Montaigne, Catherine Bardon's The Ogre's Daughter, and Mahir Guven's Older Brother, which won the Prix de Goncourt for best debut novel in 2018 and was a finalist for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize in 2020.

Publisher: Europa Editions

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Négar Djavadi, Tina Kover (Translator)

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Négar Djavadi

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