Persian Brides
by Dorit Rabinyan
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A funny tale on the inhabitants of a Jewish quarter in a 19th century Persian town. A pregnant girl pines for marriage, a prostitute is accused of sleeping with the devil, a wife hides her ugly features by spreading a thin layer of goat butter on her husband's glasses. A first novel by an Israeli writer.Tags
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Raucous, vivid, a little gross. No character development, just visceral description and high (hysterical?) emotion. Lots of laughing, crying, hair pulling, lip biting, cooking, fucking, cursing. Thought the subject would interest me (Jewish life in a 1930s Iranian village) but the book is not my cup of tea.
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Dorit Rabinyan is an Israeli of Persian descent. She lives in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title*
- Perzische bruiden
- Original title
- Simtat ha-sjkediot be-Omridzjan
- Original publication date
- 1995
- First words*
- Die nacht wilde Flora watermeloen.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)'Zijn jullie eindelijk klaar?'
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Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 892.436 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature Afro-Asiatic literatures Jewish, Israeli, and Hebrew Hebrew fiction 1947–2000
- LCC
- PJ5054 .R257 .S5613 — Language and Literature Oriental languages and literatures Oriental philology and literature Hebrew Literature Individual authors and works
- BISAC
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- 127
- Popularity
- 256,196
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.50)
- Languages
- 8 — Dutch, English, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 19
- ASINs
- 1
