The Heart's Desire: A Novel (Children of Poverty) - Softcover

Rachlin, Nahid

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0872863050 ISBN 13: 9780872863057

Verlag: City Lights Books, 1995

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Book by Rachlin Nahid

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Jennifer Sahary, an American artist, and her husband Karim, a professor and Iranian immigrant, make an extended visit to Teheran shortly after the Iran-Iraq War, encountering unforeseen dangers and sexual temptations that change the course of their lives. When their young son is taken by his grandmother to the holy city of Qom without Jennifer's knowledge, she sets out to find him, learning much about Iran and about herself along the way. And as Karim renews contact with his family and surveys the misery and needs of his war-torn country, he begins to question where he can best achieve his ideals. In sensuous and elegant prose, Rachlin weaves the interlinking stories of a man and a woman and their contrasting cultures with balance and sympathy. "One can learn a lot from this novel ..."-- Publishers Weekly Nahid Rachlin is an Iranian who lives in New York City, where she teaches creative writing at Barnard College. She is author of Veils: Short Stories and Married to a Stranger (both published by City Lights) and Foreigner (W. W. Norton). She teaches at the New School University and the Unterberg Poetry Center in New York.

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Nahid Rachlin is the Iranian-American author of four novels, short stories, and essays. She teaches at New School University and the Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y, New York City.

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• Verlag: City Lights Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0872863050
• ISBN 13: 9780872863057
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 198