Advanced readers edition in very good condition.
“A jerk who writes poems for you is not called a jerk.”
As a child living in his family’s apple orchard, Ahmad Torkash-Vand treasures his great-great-great-great grandfather’s every mesmerizing word. On the day of his father’s death, Ahmad listens closely as the seemingly immortal elder tells him the tale of a centuries-old family curse…and the boy’s own fated role in the story.
Ahmad grows up to suspect that something must be interfering with his family, as he struggles to hold them together through decades of famine, loss, and political turmoil in Iran. As the world transforms around him, each turn of Ahmad’s life is a surprise: from street brawler, to father of two unusually gifted daughters; from radical poet, to politician with a target on his back. These lives, and the many unforgettable stories alongside his, converge and catch fire at the center of the Revolution.
Exploring the brutality of history while conjuring the astonishment of magical realism, The Immortals of Tehran is a novel about the incantatory power of words and the revolutionary sparks of love, family, and poetry—set against the indifferent, relentless march of time.
Read-Alikes for The Immortals of Tehran: The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali; Children of the Jacaranda Tree by Sahar Deljani; The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani; The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther; Lipstick Jihad by Azadeh Moaveni.
Advanced readers edition in very good condition.
“A jerk who writes poems for you is not called a jerk.”
As a child living in his family’s apple orchard, Ahmad Torkash-Vand treasures his great-great-great-great grandfather’s every mesmerizing word. On the day of his father’s death, Ahmad listens closely as the seemingly immortal elder tells him the tale of a centuries-old family curse…and the boy’s own fated role in the story.
Ahmad grows up to suspect that something must be interfering with his family, as he struggles to hold them together through decades of famine, loss, and political turmoil in Iran. As the world transforms around him, each turn of Ahmad’s life is a surprise: from street brawler, to father of two unusually gifted daughters; from radical poet, to politician with a target on his back. These lives, and the many unforgettable stories alongside his, converge and catch fire at the center of the Revolution.
Exploring the brutality of history while conjuring the astonishment of magical realism, The Immortals of Tehran is a novel about the incantatory power of words and the revolutionary sparks of love, family, and poetry—set against the indifferent, relentless march of time.
Read-Alikes for The Immortals of Tehran: The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali; Children of the Jacaranda Tree by Sahar Deljani; The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani; The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther; Lipstick Jihad by Azadeh Moaveni.
ISBN 978-1-61219-818-7
Ali Araghi
2020
