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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 |
Nahid Rachlin
Hardcover | Pages: 304 pages Rating: 3.89 | 3225 Users | 554 Reviews
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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.
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| Original Title: | Persian Girls |
| ISBN: | 1585425206 (ISBN13: 9781585425204) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Iran |
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Ratings: 3.89 From 3225 Users | 554 ReviewsComment On Epithetical Books Persian Girls
I 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 IranianI 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
This isn't a classic memoir, in the sense that it isn't a reflection on the author's own life as much as it is a reflection on the author's relationship with her favourite sister, and the ways in which their lives ended up diverging so profoundly.It's a very readable book, and though it covers a lot of the politics within Iran during the time period spanned by the story, it never gets bogged down by historical details. The time period during which the author's story takes place was a time of
3.5 starsNahid Rachlin writes with impressive fluidity, making this memoir read more like a novel. Good flow. It moves fast, and yet is a complete story. She tells of being given to her Aunt Maryam to raise, because Maryam was unable to have children. So Maryam was her "mother." But then her father abducted her when she was nine years old and he decided it was time for her to live with her birth family in another city. She was miserable there, but her sweet older sister Pari gave her the love
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 feels
Excellent memoir of a woman born in Persia or Iran, who always had dreams and aspirations to leave the oppressive society and come to America. Her struggles to balance her dreams with her culture, her relatives and friends, her religion and even her foods, with her desire to leave are all described in detail. The author went on to become a professor at Yale University - but how she got there is absolutely fascinating. Growing up as a young girl, Nahid lived an idyllic life with her aunt. She had
Beautiful and haunting story. As of now, not much has changed for the women of Iran, and much of the Islamic world, apparently.
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