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In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. Terrified by his disappearance, his family must reconcile a new world of cruelty and chaos with the collapse of everything they have known. As Isaac navigates the terrors of prison, and his wife feverishly searches for him, his children struggle with the realization that their family may soon be forced to embark on a journey of incalculable danger.
Set in Tehran during the aftermath of the 1979 revolution, Dalia Sofer’s The Septembers of Shiraz follows the Amin family as they cope with the father’s false imprisonment for being a spy, watch their formerly peaceful world collapse, and flee their homeland.
“[A] richly evocative, powerfully affecting depiction of a prosperous Jewish family in Tehran shortly after the revolution . . . it’s impossible to predict whether Sofer’s novel will become a classic, but it certainly stands a chance . . . the book’s simple plot is immediately engaging. . . . Sofer writes beautifully . . . and she tells her characters’ stories with deceptive simplicity . . . The Septembers of Shiraz is miraculously light in its touch, as beautiful and delicate as a book about suffering can be.”-Claire Messud, New York Times Book ReviewYou may also like
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