A Good Country
Autor Laleh Khadivien Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 iun 2017
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781408875995
ISBN-10: 1408875993
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1408875993
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Major
press
coverage
anticipated.
Khadivi's
previous
novels
received
rave
reviews
and
this
very
timely
novel
confronts
urgent
contemporary
issues
with
subtlety
and
insight.
Notă biografică
Laleh
Khadiviis
the
author
of
the
Kurdish
Trilogy.
Her
first
novel,The
Age
of
Orphans,
received
the
Whiting
Award
for
Fiction,
the
Barnes
and
Nobles
Discover
New
Writers
Award
and
an
Emory
Fiction
Fellowship,
and
was
followed
by
the
acclaimedThe
Walking.
She
has
also
worked
as
a
director,
producer
and
cinematographer
of
documentary
films,
and
her
debut,900
Women,
premiered
at
the
Human
Rights
Watch
Film
Festival.
Khadivi
lives
in
northern
California
and
teaches
at
the
University
of
San
Francisco.
@Laleh
Khadivi
Recenzii
A
bold
and
beautiful
work
of
fiction
.
Khadivi's
language
is
sensuous
and
rich
.
At
a
time
when
western
readers'
perceptions
of
Iran
are
too
often
shaped
by
current
affairs,
this
book
and
its
sequels
will
shine
a
necessary
light
on
the
country's
dawn,
and
on
its
people's
remarkable
history
The Age of Orphanshas something in common with Chinua Achebe's masterpiece,Things Fall Apart. The style is poetic, intense and lyrical, even when describing events of great brutality
Remarkable for its beautiful and brutal poetry . Khadivi's writing is bleakly expressive and always sensitive to the alterity and particularity, the poetry and the politics of an individual life
Poetic, heartfelt
A bleak, bittersweet paean to Laleh Khadivi's birthplace, Iran. In a work which is as beautiful as it is violent, she tells the larger story of the nation's reinvention through the life of a single Kurdish boy . Impressive and courageous
Assured and endlessly creative
Khadivi is capable of lyricism and poetry . A brave and haunting book about displacement and identity
Lyrical and illuminating
The precision of Khadivi's sentences, each with a gentle rhythm and a sure-footed intelligence, engenders deep sympathy for the miseries experienced by forced migrants
Laleh Khadivi's powerful family saga concludes with a story about teen radicalisation . Khadivi uses a palate of muted shades of grey, thus encouraging in her readers the degree of empathy that's so sorely absent in the interactions between Rez and those who can't see beyond the colour of his skin. Each of the novels in the trilogy is a Bildungsroman, but there's something particularly poignant about Rez's journey from innocence to experience given that, compared with the struggles of his father and grandfather, he's born into land of such plenty and privilege. To emphasise this, much of the story is devoted to typical lazy teenage days, filled with "activities without consequence", the pleasures and boredoms of which Khadivi is excellent at capturing. One doesn't need to have read eitherThe Age of OrphansorThe Walkingto appreciate the full impact ofA Good Country,the tragedy of Rez's fate rings loud and clear regardless, but I wouldn't be surprised if first-time readers found themselves thereafter drawn to the earlier books. To see history repeating itself . is to add another layer of complexity to both stories
Using vivid characters that bound off the page and dialogue that's millennial and local and deliberate to the last word, Khadivi establishes a sense of familiarity early on in order to prepare the reader for a story that is not at all familiar - it is outlandish and extreme and deeply unsettling. Khadivi's novel poses a mystifying question: how does a lucky, studious American boy, the free child of prosperous Iranian immigrants who never had to suffer, fall into radical Islam? . What Khadivi offers is a frighteningly believable study of one boy's psychological transformation. No doubt, Khadivi's novel will draw comparisons to Mohsin Hamid's much acclaimed 2007 book,The Reluctant Fundamentalist,which also takes on identity, displacement, assimilation and radicalisation
The Age of Orphanshas something in common with Chinua Achebe's masterpiece,Things Fall Apart. The style is poetic, intense and lyrical, even when describing events of great brutality
Remarkable for its beautiful and brutal poetry . Khadivi's writing is bleakly expressive and always sensitive to the alterity and particularity, the poetry and the politics of an individual life
Poetic, heartfelt
A bleak, bittersweet paean to Laleh Khadivi's birthplace, Iran. In a work which is as beautiful as it is violent, she tells the larger story of the nation's reinvention through the life of a single Kurdish boy . Impressive and courageous
Assured and endlessly creative
Khadivi is capable of lyricism and poetry . A brave and haunting book about displacement and identity
Lyrical and illuminating
The precision of Khadivi's sentences, each with a gentle rhythm and a sure-footed intelligence, engenders deep sympathy for the miseries experienced by forced migrants
Laleh Khadivi's powerful family saga concludes with a story about teen radicalisation . Khadivi uses a palate of muted shades of grey, thus encouraging in her readers the degree of empathy that's so sorely absent in the interactions between Rez and those who can't see beyond the colour of his skin. Each of the novels in the trilogy is a Bildungsroman, but there's something particularly poignant about Rez's journey from innocence to experience given that, compared with the struggles of his father and grandfather, he's born into land of such plenty and privilege. To emphasise this, much of the story is devoted to typical lazy teenage days, filled with "activities without consequence", the pleasures and boredoms of which Khadivi is excellent at capturing. One doesn't need to have read eitherThe Age of OrphansorThe Walkingto appreciate the full impact ofA Good Country,the tragedy of Rez's fate rings loud and clear regardless, but I wouldn't be surprised if first-time readers found themselves thereafter drawn to the earlier books. To see history repeating itself . is to add another layer of complexity to both stories
Using vivid characters that bound off the page and dialogue that's millennial and local and deliberate to the last word, Khadivi establishes a sense of familiarity early on in order to prepare the reader for a story that is not at all familiar - it is outlandish and extreme and deeply unsettling. Khadivi's novel poses a mystifying question: how does a lucky, studious American boy, the free child of prosperous Iranian immigrants who never had to suffer, fall into radical Islam? . What Khadivi offers is a frighteningly believable study of one boy's psychological transformation. No doubt, Khadivi's novel will draw comparisons to Mohsin Hamid's much acclaimed 2007 book,The Reluctant Fundamentalist,which also takes on identity, displacement, assimilation and radicalisation
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'Powerful, poignant, excellent' - Independent
'Important' - Guardian
'Stunning' - New York Times
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The powerful, moving story of a California teenager from an immigrant family who, finding himself in an increasingly hostile world, is turned from a carefree surfer's life towards a culture of fear and fanaticism
Fourteen-year-old Alireza Courdee contains multitudes. He is a straight-A student and an affable stoner; the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants, and a Californian surf kid; Alireza, and just plain Rez. But when a terror incident shocks the nation - and then another, and another - Rez finds that the world has only one idea about the type of person he is; that his name and the colour of his skin make him an object of suspicion.
But there are new friends to shine a light into Rez's isolated, angry existence - Arash, a fellow Muslim student, and the beautiful Fatima. Little by little, Rez is drawn into a new circle, a circle as troubling as it is consoling - and which has a grim and glorious mission in mind for him.
Insightful, nuanced and timely, A Good Country is an unforgettable coming-of-age story which deftly captures a young man's alienation and search for identity in a flawed and violent world.
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'Powerful, poignant, excellent' - Independent
'Important' - Guardian
'Stunning' - New York Times
_______________
The powerful, moving story of a California teenager from an immigrant family who, finding himself in an increasingly hostile world, is turned from a carefree surfer's life towards a culture of fear and fanaticism
Fourteen-year-old Alireza Courdee contains multitudes. He is a straight-A student and an affable stoner; the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants, and a Californian surf kid; Alireza, and just plain Rez. But when a terror incident shocks the nation - and then another, and another - Rez finds that the world has only one idea about the type of person he is; that his name and the colour of his skin make him an object of suspicion.
But there are new friends to shine a light into Rez's isolated, angry existence - Arash, a fellow Muslim student, and the beautiful Fatima. Little by little, Rez is drawn into a new circle, a circle as troubling as it is consoling - and which has a grim and glorious mission in mind for him.
Insightful, nuanced and timely, A Good Country is an unforgettable coming-of-age story which deftly captures a young man's alienation and search for identity in a flawed and violent world.
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