The Girl from the Garden - Hardcover

Foroutan, Parnaz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006238838X ISBN 13: 9780062388384

Verlag: Harper Collins Publ. USA, 2015

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"A lush debut... Foroutan is a modern-day Scheherazade, weaving her tale through the entire 20th century, from an aging woman in her L.A. garden to the brothers whose determination to spawn heirs tortured the harem she was raised in."--Willamette Week

"The Girl from the Garden is a spectacular novel-a riveting, finely wrought portrait of loss, longing, and passion in the intimate lives of an extended family in Iran. Foroutan is a writer of astounding talent, and her tale is moving and unforgettable."--Carolina De Robertis, author of The Invisible Mountain

In her debut novel, Parnaz Foroutan has written an incantatory tale of love, sacrifice and an unquenchable yearning for paradise. Foroutan unfurls a sensuous, poetic tapestry of gardens and seasons, of women enshrouded and silenced by culture, of men made intractable by honor, religious tradition and filial loyalty.--Melissa Pritchard, author of PalmerinoandA Solemn Pleasure

"Parnaz Foroutan's scorching debut novel, The Girl From the Garden, takes us to Iran, where a couple's inability to conceive pits a young wife against her tyrannical husband, who will stop at nothing to secure an heir."--W Magazine (online), 3 Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List

"Filled with lingering sorrow, broken hearts and cold revenge, this walk down a sometimes-darkened memory lane is not for those seeking a light-hearted read, but fans of well-paced dramas will find much to adore."--Shelf Awareness

"[U]ltimately, The Girl from the Garden is about how telling stories helps us to hold our past in our hands-and about how a flowering yard 'teeming with life' in far-off Los Angeles can movingly become, for one wandering storyteller, a home."--Seattle Times

"We never learn Mahboubeh's own story, but the sense of a personality forged by the sacrifice, betrayal and restrictions of the women who came before her will remain with the reader long after the book is over."--BookPage

"A powerful and moving novel about the devastating choices women face when their worth is tied to their wombs but not themselves. Parnaz Foroutan takes the timeless themes of love, honor, sacrifice and betrayal and makes them new."--Gloria Steinem

Set against the tumultuous backdrop of early 20th century Iran, The Girl from the Garden is an evocative tale of loss, betrayal and family ties. Parnaz Foroutan is a stunning new literary talent, and her debut novel is a gift to readers everywhere.--Amy Greene, author of Bloodroot

"Some novels open the door to historical worlds you've never seen before, worlds that contain unforgivable cruelty and spectacular grace. Parnaz Foroutan's The Girl from the Garden is just such a novel, a powerful story about the contorted lives of women in an ancient patriarchy, radiantly told."--Robert Eversz, author of Zero to the Bone

Reseña del editor:

An extraordinary new writer makes her literary debut with this suspenseful novel of desire, obsession, power and vulnerability, in which a crisis of inheritance leads to the downfall of a wealthy family of Persian Jews in early twentieth-century Iran.

For all his wealth and success, Asher Malacouti—the head of a prosperous Jewish family living in the Iranian town of Kermanshah—cannot have the one thing he desires above all: a male son. His young wife Rakhel, trapped in an oppressive marriage at a time when a woman’s worth is measured by her fertility, is made desperate by her failure to conceive, and grows jealous and vindictive.

Her despair is compounded by her sister-in-law Khorsheed’s pregnancy and her husband’s growing desire for Kokab, his cousin’s wife. Frustrated by his wife’s inability to bear him an heir, Asher makes a fateful choice that will shatter the household and drive Rakhel to dark extremes to save herself and preserve her status within the family.

Witnessed through the memories of the family’s only surviving daughter, Mahboubeh, now an elderly woman living in Los Angeles, The Girl from the Garden unfolds the complex, tragic history of her family in a long-lost Iran of generations past. Haunting, suspenseful and inspired by events in the author’s own family, it is an evocative and poignant exploration of sacrifice, betrayal, and the indelible legacy of the families that forge us.

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• Verlag: Harper Collins Publ. USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 006238838X
• ISBN 13: 9780062388384
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288