9798253644591 - the same fire: two civilizations that forgot each other di khan, kunwar shahnawaz (3 risultati)
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Two countries. Two students. One fire that never went out.Arjun Patil didn't want to go to Iran. It was the last country on his list - a place he knew only from news reports and sanctions and the word "Middle East" that flattened everything it touched.Nadia Tehrani didn't want to go to Indi…a. She had packed for Europe, for archives, for somewhere that felt like an extension of the reading she had been doing through a VPN since she was fourteen.Neither of them had a choice.Six months later, Arjun is standing at Persepolis, looking at the Indian delegation carved in stone in 500 BCE - a delegation his own history books never mentioned. Six months later, Nadia is sitting in a Parsi kitchen in Mumbai, eating a dish her grandmother makes in Tehran, cooked by a family that has been making it since they left Iran thirteen hundred years ago.They never meet in person. They don't need to. The connection they each discover is older than any border.The Same Fire is the story of two young people who uncover, on opposite sides of the Arabian Sea, that the countries they were taught to see as separate have been in conversation for five thousand years. It is a novel about words that stayed the same across the journey (dil/del, heart), and food that travelled without losing its bones (dum, jalebi/zoolbia, the barberries in both countries' rice). About fire on the rooftops before spring, and the sacred flame that Zoroastrian refugees carried from Iran to India and have kept burning ever since.It is also a novel about what happens when you look at the world with the part of you that doesn't have an opinion yet. About the stories countries tell themselves, and the stories they forget to tell. About the difference between being alone and being told you are alone.Arjun and Nadia are fictional.Everything they discover is real.The door between Iran and India is real.It is still open. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
