The Walking: A Novel - Softcover

Khadivi, Laleh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 160819437X ISBN 13: 9781608194377

Verlag: Bloomsbury USA, 2018

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A deeply personal and revelatory novel. (Booklist)

Laleh Khadivi is an ambitious, humane storyteller, whose obsessions--place, memory, migration--are those of our age. The Walking is a wonderful, and essential piece of fiction; and further proof of her rare gifts. My heart broke for Saladiin and Ali, for their yearning, their hopes, and their illusions. (Daniel Alarcón, author of Lost City Radio)

Khadivi's language is sensuous and rich ... At a time when western readers' perceptions of Iran are too often shaped by current affairs, [her novels] will shine a necessary light on the country's dawn, and on its people's remarkable history. (Financial Times)

Reseña del editor:

Saladin Khourdi has always known he will leave Iran. He spends his days in the cinema, dreaming of Hollywood stars in swimming pools. For his older brother, Ali, Iran is their home, their history. But both will have to leave, when the 1979 revolution leads to a killing in their mountain village. For both, there is a question of how far they will go, weighing the danger of return against the danger of continuing.

Laleh Khadivi's novel moves fluidly through time, and from the Khourdi brothers to the broader chorus of the Iranian diaspora, to create a stunning sense of a people caught between the ancient and the modern, tossed by political currents. In the story of Saladin and Ali, she explores the tension in all immigrants, the attachment to the place they must leave, and the dreams in the places they land.

It is, at last, Saladin alone who touches down in Los Angeles. He is hungry, and homeless, but he is not invisible-the city is unexpectedly heated with hate as the hostage crisis unfolds back in Iran. Los Angeles means avoiding confrontation while searching for work, counting coins and collecting sand in his shoes. But as Saladin slowly makes connections in this new place, he must determine whether home can be made anew.

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• Verlag: Bloomsbury USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 160819437X
• ISBN 13: 9781608194377
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272