Nahid Rachlin
Hardcover | Pages: 304 pages Rating: 3.89 | 3225 Users | 554 Reviews
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| Title | : | Persian Girls |
| Author | : | Nahid Rachlin |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
| Published | : | October 5th 2006 by Tarcher |
| Categories | : | Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Cultural. Iran. Biography |
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For many years, heartache prevented Nahid Rachlin from turning her sharp novelist's eye inward: to tell the story of how her own life diverged from that of her closest confidante and beloved sister, Pari. Growing up in Iran, both refused to accept traditional Muslim mores, and dreamed of careers in literature and on the stage. Their lives changed abruptly when Pari was coerced by their father into marrying a wealthy and cruel suitor. Nahid narrowly avoided a similar fate, and instead negotiated with him to pursue her studies in America. When Nahid received the unsettling and mysterious news that Pari had died after falling down a flight of stairs, she traveled back to Iran-now under the Islamic regime-to find out what happened to her truest friend, confront her past, and evaluate what the future holds for the heartbroken in a tale of crushing sorrow, sisterhood, and ultimately, hope.Identify Books Supposing Persian Girls
| Original Title: | Persian Girls |
| ISBN: | 1585425206 (ISBN13: 9781585425204) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Iran |
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Ratings: 3.89 From 3225 Users | 554 ReviewsCriticism Containing Books Persian Girls
This was an alluring story about a Persian girl growing up in Iran during the days of the Shah. When she is born, her mother gives her to her sister, who can't have children. She is raised by her single, widowed aunt, who is truly the mother she knows, until the day her father decides that he will take her back because she is of the age when she needs to be raised with a man in the household. Imagine being nine years old, separated from your mother, and placed in a household where everyone feelsI read this excellent memoir in two sittings. The writing is fluid and compelling and easily takes you into the author's life in Iran and into the lives of the writer's two families - her adoptive mother Maryam and her biological mother, Mohtaram, two sisters. This moving story reveals the plight of women without a voice of their own in family or in public life and the difficulty of living in Iran during the time, for both men and women. The memoir tells the poignant story of two Iranian
I know very little about modern Iranian history (all I had studied before was the Persians and the Greeks that period of Persian history) so it was a delight to come across this hauntingly beautiful memoir by Nahid Rachlin.Through Rachlins words, I went on a journey through Iran, through Imperial Iran to the Iranian revolution to the modern day period. Rachlins family is a messy, complicated structure caught between the old and the new modern and traditional Islamic values and ideas. They
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These days I find myself really attracted to memoirs - it doesn't even have to be a famous person but I just love reading about people's lives whether they are seemingly normal or famous. I found this book to be incredibly readable - I actually couldn't put it down and read it in a day. While the author's writing wasn't necessarily very warm or welcoming, her story is a good one and made me so angry at times that I wanted to toss this book across the room and jump up and down on it. I've always
This was such a beautifully written memoir. I really wish that her sister Pari had not passed and that she would have got to see her son. When I looked at her picture I felt that she really did have the look of an actress.I could feel the warmth and comfort of her "mother's" home. She describes everything with so much feeling. It is a little sad that she didn't teach her own daughter anything about her culture and how to speak Farsi. I understand why she didn't though. I'm sure she would have
Persian Girls is a memoir of a young girl who life was hard since she was born. 1. Her mother give her away. 2. The way of living in Iran was hard at the time 3. Always challenging herself to get where she want it to be getting her to consequences.Approx. at the age of 8th she was taken away from her "mother" by her father to bring her back home, where her brothers and sisters (just by name, because she has never had any interaction with them neither know them, since she was given away to her
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