The Pomegranate Lady and Her Sons: Selected Stories - Rilegato

Taraghi, Goli

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ISBN 10: 039306333X ISBN 13: 9780393063332

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2013

Riassunto

Rich in characters both whimsical and deeply poignant, humorous and real, the stories of Goli Taraghi have made her one of the world’s most beloved contemporary writers from Iran. A best-selling author in her native country and widely anthologized in the United States and around the world, Taraghi's work is now made fully accessible to an English-speaking audience in this standout and long-awaited volume of selected stories, selected as a Best Book of 2013 by staff and critics at National Public Radio.Drawing on childhood experiences in Tehran during the reign of the Shah, her exile in Paris, and her subsequent visits to Tehran after the revolution, Taraghi develops characters and tales that linger in one’s mind. In the title story, a woman traveling from Tehran to Paris is obliged to help an old woman—the Pomegranate Lady—find her way to her fugitive sons in Sweden. In "The Gentleman Thief," a new kind of polite, apologetic thief emerges from the wreckage of the revolution. In "Encounter," a woman's world is upended when her former maid becomes her jailer. And in "The Flowers of Shiraz," a group of teenagers finally manages to coax a shy schoolmate out of her shell—only to once again encounter tragedy.Reminiscent of the work of Nadine Gordimer and Eudora Welty, Taraghi's stories capture universal experiences of love, loss, alienation, and belonging—all with an irresistible sense of life’s absurdities.

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The Pomegranate Lady and Her Sons is a book of many pleasures. It has a scalpel-sharp sense of the absurd and a splendid view of the wild resourcefulness of people coping with restraints. Vibrancy spills from impossible situations--pain and charm keep trading places--in Goli Taraghi's remarkable stories. --Joan Silber

L'autore:

Goli Taraghi was born in Tehran in 1939. She has been honored as a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in France, and her work has been widely anthologized, including in Reza Aslan s Tablet and Pen. She lives in Paris. Sara Khalili s translations include Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour, The Book of Fate by Parinoush Saniee, and Kissing the Sword: A Prison Memoir by Shahrnush Parsipur. She lives in New York.

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 039306333X
• ISBN 13: 9780393063332
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 323