Things We Left Unsaid: The award-winning bestseller - Couverture souple

Pirzad, Zoya

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1851689672 ISBN 13 : 9781851689675

Editeur : Oneworld Publications, 2013

Synopsis

Deep in an Iranian suburb, made rich by the booming oil industry, Clarice Ayvazian lives a comfortable life surrounded by the gentle bickering of her children and her gossiping friends and relatives. Happy being at the heart of her family, she devotes herself to their every need. But when an enigmatic Armenian family move in across the street, something begins to gnaw at Clarice's contentment: a feeling that there may be more to life - and to her - than this. Dizzy with the sweltering heat and simmering emotions, Clarice begins to feel herself come alive to possibilities previously unimaginable. Set in Iran prior to the Islamic revolution, Zoya Pirzad's award-winning novel crafts an intimate portrait of family life - its joys and its compromises - and how we find a happiness that endures.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A model wife and mother, Clarisse leads an unremarkable life. She has all she's ever wanted: a well-respected engineer husband and three children, tucked away in a wealthy, middle-class neighbourhood. But her tranquillity ends forever with the arrival of an enigmatic Armenian family across the street. The debonair widower, his beguiling tween daughter, and his mother, a domineering aristocrat with an exotic past, steal their way into Clarisse's home. Before she has time to understand what's happening, passions, politics, and a plague of locusts have whipped up emotions that she never knew she had. Suddenly, there are options, opinions, and desires, a wholly different life ready for the taking - but only if she can figure out what they are. Things We Left Unsaid is a humourous and pointed insight into the hopes and aspirations of Iranians in the years that led to the Islamic Revolution.

Revue de presse :

A rising star of Iranian literature, Zoya Pirzad transcends the everyday with her luminous writing. --Elle magazine

Elegant, thoughtful, and entirely mesmerising... a compelling read. --We Love This Book

A sympathetic glimpse of pre-revolutionary Iran, Things We Left Unsaid shows how disrupted families can continue to function through compromise and understanding. --Glasgow Herald

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oneworld Publications
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1851689672
• ISBN 13: 9781851689675
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352