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The Age of Orphans
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Artikel-Nr:
9781408802533
Veröffentl:
2010
Seiten:
304
Autor:
Laleh Khadivi
Gewicht:
220 g
Format:
198x158x30 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Laleh Khadivi was born in Esfahan, Iran, in 1977. In the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution her family fled, finally settling in Canada and then the United States. Khadivi received her MFA from Mills College and was a Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction at Emory University. In 2008 she received The Whiting Writers' Award. In 2009 she published her first novel The Age of Orphans. Laleh Khadivi lives in California.
_______________'Bold and beautiful' - Financial Times'Remarkable' - Independent'Assured and endlessly creative' - Metro_______________A nine-year-old Kurdish boy plays in his village in the Persian mountains, gazing over the land of his fathers and forefathers. But when messengers from the hills bring whispers of war and rumours that the Shah's army is on the march, he must stand alongside his villagers and fight for their land. Years later, he can only faintly recall the brutal murder of his father and cousins. Orphaned on the battlefield, conscripted and given a new name, Reza is married and has risen up the ranks to become Captain. But there are stirrings within his heart. He will soon be sent west to Kermanshah, to rule as the Shah's servant in the land of his birth.
Einst war Reza ein ganz normaler kurdischer Junge: er liebte Vater und Mutter, Vögel und die wilden Zagros-Berge. Doch nach einem Massaker der iranischen Armee wurde er von genau den Menschen aufgezogen und geprägt, die seine Familie vernichtet hatten. Nach vielen Jahren kehrt er in seine Heimat zurück, doch nun als Oberst der iranischen Armee - mit dem Auftrag die Kurden zu überwachen.
The Age of Orphans is the fictionalized story of the author's grandfather and her attempt to reclaim her own buried history.