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To keep the sun alive : a novel / Rabeah Ghaffari.
Van Pelt Library PS3607.H34 T6 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ghaffari, Rabeah, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mothers--Iran--Fiction.
- Mothers.
- Solar eclipses.
- Orchards.
- Social conditions.
- History.
- Iran--History--Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 1941-1979--Fiction.
- Iran.
- Iran--Social conditions--20th century--Fiction.
- Orchards--Fiction.
- Solar eclipses--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- History.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- x, 273 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Catapult, 2019.
- Summary:
- The year is 1979. The Iranian Revolution is just around the corner. In the northeastern city of Naishapur, a family, including their friends and servants, ranging from young to old, reveal the personal behind the political, reminding us of the human lives that animate historical events.
- Iran, 1979; the Iranian Revolution is just around the corner. In the northeastern city of Naishapur, a retired judge and his wife, Bibi-Khanoom, continue to run their ancient family orchard, growing apples, plums, peaches, and sour cherries. Bibi-Khanoom's grandniece secretly falls in love with the judge's grandnephew and dreams of a career on the stage. His other grandnephew withers away on opium dreams. A widowed father longs for a life in Europe. A strained marriage slowly unravels. As the streets in the capital grow violent, a solar eclipse, set to occur on one of the holiest days of year, finally causes the family-- and the country-- to break. -- adapted from jacket.
- ISBN:
- 9781948226097
- 194822609X
- 9781948226769
- 1948226766
- OCLC:
- 1037807731
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