Persian Girls - Reading & Discussion with Nahid Rachlin

Persian Girls - Reading & Discussion with Nahid Rachlin

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Event Type
Book
Date And Time
6:30 PM Wednesday, Apr 4
Event Area
New York Metro
Event Location
455 Fifth Avenue (40th Street) 6th Floor
Description
Reading, discussion, booksigning- PERSIAN GIRLS, memoir REVIEWS: NPR: THE WORLD Slected by Christopher Merrill, the Director of Iowa International Writing Program as one of the best four books of 2006. "If you want to know what it was like to grow up in Iran this is the book to read. Rachlin, the author of five previous works of fiction, including the much acclaimed Foreigner, begins her story at the age of nine, when she was taken away from the only mother she had ever known—her aunt, as it happens—and returned to a family in which the prospects of her becoming a writer were, at best, dim. But her portrait of the artist is filled with light." *** Matt Beynon Rees, contributing editor, Time: “Through the touching story of two sisters, Persian Girls unfolds the entire drama of modern Iran. It’s a beautiful memoir of the cruelty of men toward women, and it paints the exotic scents and traditions of Tehran with the delicacy of a great novel. If you want to understand Iran, read Nahid Rachlin.” *** Dona Munker, coauthor of Daughter of Persia: “Riveting and beautifully observed, Persian Girls recounts Nahid Rachlin’s family epic with the same quietly mesmerizing power that makes her novels and short stories linger in the mind years after we’ve read the last page.”
Admission Fee
free
E-Mail
nahidr@rcn.com
Website
http://www.nahidrachlin.com
Contact Info
Information: 212 340 0874



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