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Loading... The Septembers of Shirazby Dalia Sofer
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Revolution and Freedom living2read | Jun 25, 2009 |   bookclub4evr | Jun 24, 2009 | The ‘Septembers of Shiraz’ is an amazing debut novel. Ms. Sofer eloquently depicts the struggle that Jewish jeweler Isaac Amin and his family face after the Iranian revolution of the 1970s. The prose is beautiful and has an underlying sadness to it – obviously due to the subject matter (fear and suffering). The Amin family (Isaac, Farnaz, Shirin and Parviz) are fully developed, realistic and will remain with you long after the story ends. Enjoy the following excerpt: She peers inside the shop through the glass. Nothing is left but dusty shelves, and a glass filled with turbid tea on the counter, along with a half-eaten sandwich, surrounded now by ants---Shahriar Beheshti’s final lunch. “Looks like they got him recently.” ‘The Septembers of Shiraz’ I believe that Ms. Sofer is an author to watch for in the future. I know I will be looking. (  )cathyB00 | Apr 30, 2009 | Beautifully written story of a Jewish family in Iran after the Revolution and their son who is attending school in New York. The father, a jeweller, is suspected of being a spy and is arrested and thrown into prison, and the family finds itself waiting, hoping for his release. I was particularly struck by the scenes of the father in prison, the other prisoners and conditions of prison, and the head jailer and his exchanges with Isaac (the father). (  )not_another_mom | Mar 23, 2009 | More than just relevant...Just beautiful and wrenching. ( )ShanLizLuv | Jan 17, 2009 | 0.046 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0061130400, Hardcover)In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. Terrified by his disappearance, his family must reconcile a new world of cruelty and chaos with the collapse of everything they have known. As Isaac navigates the tedium and terrors of prison, forging tenuous trusts, his wife feverishly searches for him, suspecting, all the while, that their once-trusted housekeeper has turned on them and is now acting as an informer. And as his daughter, in a childlike attempt to stop the wave of baseless arrests, engages in illicit activities, his son, sent to New York before the rise of the Ayatollahs, struggles to find happiness even as he realizes that his family may soon be forced to embark on a journey of incalculable danger. A page-turning literary debut, The Septembers of Shiraz simmers with questions of identity, alienation, and love, not simply for a spouse or a child, but for all the intangible sights and smells of the place we call home. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:24 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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