The Place of Stones: A Novel - Softcover

Hosseini, Ali

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810135752 ISBN 13: 9780810135758

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2017

Synopsis

The Place of Stones is Ali Hosseini’s first novel. In it, he paints a vivid portrait of Sangriz, a village in the southern part of Iran where life has been disrupted by industrialization and the Iranian Revolution of 1979.
 
Haydar and Jamal are best friends, and their families have always made their living from the land in the foothills of Iran’s Zagros Mountains. Haydar is a dreamer who searches the hills for an ancient treasure called the Black Globe. Jamal is in love with Haydar’s sister, Golandam, and he attempts to accommodate himself to modernization as a way to create a better life for the two of them. The rapacious conversion of farmland to brick factories draws the trio into escalating conflict with the village landlord.
 
As Jamal, Haydar, and their families confront land reform, industrialization, revolution, and war, their lives are pulled forcefully toward the explosive events that will change them all. In masterfully crafted prose that never sinks into sentimentality, The Place of Stones illuminates how a lost past continues to shape the present.

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About the Author

Ali Hosseini is the author of the novel The Lemon Grove (Northwestern, 2012). The Place of Stones (Sangriz) and two short-story collections were published in Iran, and his short fiction has appeared in Persian in the United States in PAR Monthly and Persian Book Review. His work in English has been published in Epoch, StoryQuarterly, Guernica, Tweed's, Fiction International, American Letters & Commentary, and elsewhere. He lives in the Boston area.

Edition details

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810135752
• ISBN 13: 9780810135758
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216