TY  - BOOK
AU  - Djavadi,Négar
AU  - Kover,Tina A.
TI  - Disoriental
SN  - 9781609454517
AV  - PQ 3979.3 .D53 D4713 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - Europa Editions
KW  - Iranians
KW  - France
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Families
KW  - Iran
KW  - Sexual minority community
KW  - History
KW  - Revolution, 1979
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - lcgft
N2  - Kimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five and facing the future she has built for herself as well as the prospect of a new generation, Kimiâ is inundated by her own memories and the stories of her ancestors, which come to her in unstoppable, uncontainable waves. In the waiting room of a Parisian fertility clinic, generations of flamboyant Sadrs return to her, including her formidable great-grandfather Montazemolmolk, with his harem of fifty-two wives, and her parents, Darius and Sara, stalwart opponents of each regime that befalls them.

In this high-spirited, kaleidoscopic story, key moments of Iranian history, politics, and culture punctuate stories of family drama and triumph. Yet it is Kimiâ herself––punk-rock aficionado, storyteller extraordinaire, a Scheherazade of our time, and above all a modern woman divided between family traditions and her own “disorientalization”––who forms the heart of this bestselling and beloved novel
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