The Persians - Mahloudji, Sanam
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An irreverent and deeply-felt debut novel about a family confronting a past that is both keeping them together and preventing them from breaking free. Meet the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they’re nobodies. First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the famously large nose who stayed in Tehran during the revolution. She lives in a shabby apartment, paranoid and alone. Except when she is visited by Niaz, her Islamic-law-breaking granddaughter who takes her debauchery with a side of purpose, and yet somehow manages to survive. Elizabeth’s daughters left for…mehr

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An irreverent and deeply-felt debut novel about a family confronting a past that is both keeping them together and preventing them from breaking free. Meet the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they’re nobodies. First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the famously large nose who stayed in Tehran during the revolution. She lives in a shabby apartment, paranoid and alone. Except when she is visited by Niaz, her Islamic-law-breaking granddaughter who takes her debauchery with a side of purpose, and yet somehow manages to survive. Elizabeth’s daughters left for America in 1979: Shirin, a charismatic yet outrageous event planner in Houston who considers herself the family’s future, and Seema, a dreamy idealist-turned-housewife languishing in the chaparral-filled hills of Los Angeles. And then there’s the other granddaughter Bita, the self-righteous but lost law student spending her days in New York City eating pancakes and quietly giving away her belongings. When an annual vacation in Aspen goes wildly awry and Shirin ends up being bailed out of jail by Bita, the family’s brittle status quo is cracked open. Shirin embarks upon a grand but half-baked quest to restore the family name. But what does that even mean in a country where the Valiats never mattered? Will they ever realize that life is more than just an old story? These are five women who are pulled apart and brought together by revolution. Here is their past, present, and future. By turns satirical and philosophical, traveling from the 1940s Iran into a splintered 2000s, The Persians is a mordantly funny, heartbreakingly sad, and profoundly searching portrait of a family in crisis at the turn of the century, an American family saga reinvented.
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Autorenporträt
Sanam Mahloudji was born in Tehran and left during the Islamic Revolution. She is the recipient of the Pushcart Prize and was nominated for a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, The Idaho Review, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. Mahloudji was raised in Los Angeles and now lives in London with her husband and two children. The Persians is her debut novel.
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'A wonderful multi-generational family drama with characters you really care about. I'm still thinking about them now. I enjoyed it enormously' Marian Keyes, author of My Favourite Mistake

'The Persians is a glorious feat of juggling. Five women's voices becoming an irresistible whole in this darkly funny, richly satisfying, wonderful debut' Sarah Winman, author of Still Life

'At once funny and profound, sprawling and personal, The Persians questions history's grip on our lives-is it possible to free ourselves from the past, and do we even want to? A gloriously engrossing debut' Tash Aw, author of We, The Survivors

'An epic of intricate and beautiful proportion, The Persians is exuberant, comic and perceptive' Amina Cain, author of Indelicacy

'A witty and deeply absorbing saga of a family whose fate is intertwined with modern Iran's ... These five fierce, passionate, wounded women are at once tragic and hilarious, each voice meticulously crafted and singularly true' Dina Nayeri, author of Who Gets Believed?

'Filled with heartbreak, humour, and so much love, The Persians is a sharp exploration of the concerns of a wealthy Iranian family. Sanam Mahloudji takes us on a journey to reshape our understanding of power, heritage, and ancestry - and brings a rare wisdom to the chaos of family' Vanessa Chan, author of the international bestseller, The Storm We Made

'Glitzy, gutsy and deliciously dark, a romp with serious things to say about misogyny, generational trauma and losing your home' Samantha Ellis, author of Take Courage

'An irresistible novel about a singular, yet wholly recognizable, family. I fell in love with the women in the Valiat family: by turns feisty and foolish, wise and secretive, and full of so much love and longing it took my breath away' Edan Lepuncki, author of California

'Half outrageous, compulsive, shameless; half tender, loving and funny: Sanam Mahloudji's The Persians is a very brilliant, very special book' Jessica Stanley, author of A Great Hope

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