Foreigner - Softcover

Rachlin, Nahid

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393319083 ISBN 13: 9780393319088

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 1999 Pages: 192 Publisher: WW Norton & Co. Nahid Rachlin has an intimate insider's knowledge of present-day everyday Iran - of People and places houses. Streets and families - and she writes of them with a clarity of perception and style that makes them instantly recognizable and even homely and familiar to the reader. - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Rachlin's prose carefully understates and suggests her heroine's awakening to a pervasive atmosphere of menace and sensuality; residue of a culture she thinks she has abandoned. but which continues to claim her. - uce Allen. Chicago Tribune Foreigner gently raises new as well as timeless questions about an unhappy woman's faith and freedom. - The New Yorker Conveys the texture of extended family. the stress of modernization. the strain of Moslem rigidity as well as the harmony of nature. of dust and carpets. fruits. ...

About this title

Synopsis:

Provides an insider knowledge of present-day everyday life in Iran - of people and places, houses and streets and families. It raises new as well as timeless questions about an unhappy woman's faith and freedom.

About the Author:

Nahid Rachlin was born in Iran and now lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0393319083
• ISBN 13: 9780393319088
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 198