The Award Tally
AwardsAuthorsTopics
Disoriental cover

Disoriental

Négar Djavadi

0

awards won

4

score

Disoriental

See the full ranking

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. 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 novel.

Buy this book at Amazon
Publisher
Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
Year
2018
ISBN-13
9781787702042
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Exile and immigrationFamily history and generational memoryIdentity and belonging

Awards

If you liked Disoriental, you could also like these

Similar Topics