The Gardens of Consolation
A novel of love, family, and a fight for freedom in Iran featuring a formidable and hard-to-forget heroine (Publishers Weekly).In the early 1920s, in the remote Persian village of Ghamsar, two young people dreaming of a better life fall in love and marry. Sardar brings his bride, Talla, with him across the mountains to the suburbs of Tehran, where the couple settles down and builds a home. From the outskirts of the capital city, they will watch as the Qajar dynasty falls and Reza Khan rises to power as Reza Shah Pahlavi.Into this family of illiterate shepherds is born Bahram, a boy whose brilliance and intellectual promise are apparent from a…
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Weitere Autoren: Hunter, Adriana (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-60945-350-3
- EAN: 9781609453503
- Produktnummer: 19794297
- Verlag: Europa Editions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Masse: H20.9 cm x B13.9 cm x D2.0 cm 333 g
- Gewicht: 333
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Parisa Reza was born in Tehran in 1965 to a family of intellectuals and artists, and moved to France at the age of seventeen. She was awarded the Prix Senghor 2015 for her first novel, The Gardens of Consolation.Adriana Hunter is a British translator of French literature. She has translated more than fifty French novels including Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb and The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa. She was awarded the 2011 Scott Moncrief Prize for her translation of Véronique Olmi.
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