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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Produktbeschreibung
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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'Dynamic and complex ... full of outrageous laughter, retaining its fire even in tender moments, and relishing the challenge of locating beauty and complexity within outright gaudiness' Observer

'As exuberant as it is sharp' iNEWS

'A sweeping and irreverent tale' BBC

'The word-of-mouth breakout ... we guarantee The Persians will have you hooked from the first action-filled chapter' Stylist

'Mahloudji writes with a wisdom and confidence rarely seen in a debut ... Multigenerational stories of family anguish and upheaval remain as popular as ever, from ... Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Elif Shafak's stunning exploration of generational trauma, The Island of Missing Trees. The Persians earns a place alongside these heavyweights' Guardian

'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

'A mesmerising debut that reminds us that our past travels with us ... Gorgeously written, with a flair for the comic and characters that dance off the page and into your heart' Monica Ali, author of Love Marriage

'An ambitious, glorious feat. Five women's voices become one irresistible whole in this darkly funny, richly satisfying, wonderful debut' Sarah Winman, author of Still Life

'The Persians questions history's grip on our lives-is it possible to free ourselves from the past, and do we even want to? Gloriously engrossing' Tash Aw, author of We, The Survivors

'An epic of intricate and beautiful proportion' Amina Cain, author of Indelicacy

'A witty and deeply absorbing saga' Dina Nayeri, author of Who Gets Believed?

'Filled with heartbreak, humour, and so much love' Vanessa Chan, author of The Storm We Made

'Glitzy, gutsy and deliciously dark, a romp with serious things to say' Samantha Ellis, author of Take Courage

'Half outrageous, compulsive, shameless; half tender, loving and funny ... a very brilliant, very special book' Jessica Stanley, author of A Great Hope

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