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| Original Title: | Persian Girls |
| ISBN: | 1585425206 (ISBN13: 9781585425204) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Iran |
Nahid Rachlin
Hardcover | Pages: 304 pages Rating: 3.89 | 3225 Users | 554 Reviews
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For many years, heartache prevented Nahid Rachlin from turning her sharp novelist's eye inward: to tell the story of how her own life diverged from that of her closest confidante and beloved sister, Pari. Growing up in Iran, both refused to accept traditional Muslim mores, and dreamed of careers in literature and on the stage. Their lives changed abruptly when Pari was coerced by their father into marrying a wealthy and cruel suitor. Nahid narrowly avoided a similar fate, and instead negotiated with him to pursue her studies in America.When Nahid received the unsettling and mysterious news that Pari had died after falling down a flight of stairs, she traveled back to Iran-now under the Islamic regime-to find out what happened to her truest friend, confront her past, and evaluate what the future holds for the heartbroken in a tale of crushing sorrow, sisterhood, and ultimately, hope.
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| Title | : | Persian Girls |
| Author | : | Nahid Rachlin |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
| Published | : | October 5th 2006 by Tarcher |
| Categories | : | Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Cultural. Iran. Biography |
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Ratings: 3.89 From 3225 Users | 554 ReviewsCriticism Based On Books Persian Girls
I liked this book a lot, but I didn't love it. If I could, I'd give it 3 1/2 stars. I enjoyed the memoir, I enjoyed the author and her stories, I enjoyed her writing style. It was an easy read, and I was never bored at any point in the story. I enjoyed learning about Nahid, the main character, and her relationships with her family (her sister pari, at the center of the book, but also her relationships with Mariam, the aunt who originally raised her, her birth mother, her father, her otherI love it !!Informative, deep and heartbreaking ! Nahid gave me a chance to see Iran with persian eyes, to understand what is it like "to grow up" as a woman, in a country where men and the authorities oppressed women's opinions and rights.She tells her story, from the age of nine, and the relationship she had with her family (specially her sister Pary to whom she dedicated that book) , in wich we can see different "life styles" torn between traditions and modernity.
I know very little about modern Iranian history (all I had studied before was the Persians and the Greeks that period of Persian history) so it was a delight to come across this hauntingly beautiful memoir by Nahid Rachlin.Through Rachlins words, I went on a journey through Iran, through Imperial Iran to the Iranian revolution to the modern day period. Rachlins family is a messy, complicated structure caught between the old and the new modern and traditional Islamic values and ideas. They
I enjoyed this book on so many levels. I am always interested in the differences in culture, and how religion, culture and politics plays such an amazing role in our world, whether we believe it or not.Having read The Bookseller of Kabul, this book gives hope to one middle eastern woman who wants nothing more than to come to American and feel free. Not necessarily "free" in the terms that you or I think as "free" but to be herself. She did not feel "in place" at her home in Iran, nor in America.
Very good memoir by Nahid Rachlin. I found this story both interesting and educational. I recently completed a history class section on the Iran/Iraq war and her mention of this time period, as well as before and after, were insightful, and I feel it helped me understand the culture of the Iranian people better. She had many tough times that she went through both in the U.S. as well as Iran. The isolation she felt living in two very different societies would have overwhelmed many, but her
These days I find myself really attracted to memoirs - it doesn't even have to be a famous person but I just love reading about people's lives whether they are seemingly normal or famous. I found this book to be incredibly readable - I actually couldn't put it down and read it in a day. While the author's writing wasn't necessarily very warm or welcoming, her story is a good one and made me so angry at times that I wanted to toss this book across the room and jump up and down on it. I've always
What a terribly sad story.Nahid, the author, was wrenched at age nine from the loving care of her adoptive childless aunt into her ambivalent family of origin. Unhappy at this turn of events, Nahid eventually forms a close attachment to her newfound older sister, Pari. Nahid and Pari's paths diverge, though, as Pari is forced by her parents into an unwanted arranged marriage and Nahid manages to convince her reluctant father to send her to university in the States. The course of Pari's life ends
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