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Persian Brides
Dorit Rabinyan
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Description for Persian Brides
Paperback. The story of two young Jewish girls living in a village in Persia at the turn of the century. Nazie has been long engaged to her cousin and anxiously awaits their marriage whilst Flora is married, pregnant and seemingly abandoned. Translator(s): Lotan, Yael. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 168.
While eleven-year-old Nazie has long been engaged to her cousin Moussa and anxiously awaits her marriage, fifteen-year-old Flora has been abandoned by her husband in the midst of a difficult pregnancy. In a novel brimming with vitality and sensuality - smells, colours and textures float effortlessly off the page - Rabinyan examines the lives of these young Jewish girls in a Persian village at the beginning of the twentieth century. Persian Brides is a widely-acclaimed, vibrant and award-winning debut of immense emotional power.
While eleven-year-old Nazie has long been engaged to her cousin Moussa and anxiously awaits her marriage, fifteen-year-old Flora has been abandoned by her husband in the midst of a difficult pregnancy. In a novel brimming with vitality and sensuality - smells, colours and textures float effortlessly off the page - Rabinyan examines the lives of these young Jewish girls in a Persian village at the beginning of the twentieth century. Persian Brides is a widely-acclaimed, vibrant and award-winning debut of immense emotional power.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841955100
SKU
V9781841955100
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About Dorit Rabinyan
DORIT RABINYAN was born in 1972 in Kfar Saba, Israel, to a Jewish family that had emigrated from Iran. Persian Brides is her first novel, which she wrote at the age of twenty-one, using her family stories. She has also written a book of poems and a second novel, Our Weddings (Bloomsbury, 2001).
Reviews for Persian Brides
The energy of the writing is remarkable . . . It is as if we have entered the wildest of Chagall's paintings.
Literary Review
A remarkable (and well-translated) extravaganza.
Sunday Telegraph
Bursting with colourful stories and superstitions, the narrative seems to embrace whole lives rather than just two ... Read more
Literary Review
A remarkable (and well-translated) extravaganza.
Sunday Telegraph
Bursting with colourful stories and superstitions, the narrative seems to embrace whole lives rather than just two ... Read more