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Persian girls
| Publish Place | New York |
| Publisher | Tarcher |
| Publish Year | 2007 |
| Pages | 293p. |
| ISBN/ISSN | 9781585426232 |
| Illustration | ill. |
| Language | English/Engels |
- Shelfmark
- V IND 9 RAC 2007
| Description | This memoir by the author of four novels tells the story of an Iranian girl growing up in a culture where, despite the Westernizing reforms of the Shah, women had little power or autonomy. As an infant in 1946, Rachlin was given to her mother's favorite sister, a widow who had been unable to conceive, and was lovingly raised among supportive widows who took refuge in religion from their frustrations as women in an oppressive society. At the age of nine, Rachlin's father met her at school without warning and brought her to Ahvaz to live with her birth family. Miserable in the new household, young Nahid was befriended by her sister Pari. Both sisters developed artistic ambitions, but only Nahid managed to escape the typical female fate, convincing her father to send her to college in the U.S. Less lucky is Pari, whose life of arranged marriage, divorce from an abusive husband and estrangement from her son ends in depression and early death. |
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