WINNER2019 Albertine Prize2019 Lambda Literary AwardPrix du StylePrix de la Porte Doree2016 Lire Best Debut NovelLe Prix du Roman NewsKimia Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France.
Yet it is Kimia herself―punk-rock aficionado, storyteller extraordinaire, a Scheherazade of our time, and above all a modern woman divided between family traditions and her own “disorientalization”―who forms the heart of this bestselling and beloved novel..
In the waiting room of a Parisian fertility clinic, generations of flamboyant Sadrs return to her, including her formidable great-grandfather Montazemolmolk, with his harem of fifty-two wives, and her parents, Darius and Sara, stalwart opponents of each regime that befalls them.
In this high-spirited, kaleidoscopic story, key moments of Iranian history, politics, and culture punctuate stories of family drama and triumph.
Now twenty-five, with a new life and the prospect of a child, Kimia is inundated by her own memories and the stories of her ancestors, which reach her in unstoppable, uncontainable waves.
WINNER2019 Albertine Prize2019 Lambda Literary AwardPrix du StylePrix de la Porte Doree2016 Lire Best Debut NovelLe Prix du Roman NewsKimia Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France
