The Age of Orphans: A Novel
by Khadivi, Laleh
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1596916168
- ISBN 13
- 9781596916166
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About This Item
New York: Bloomsbury Usa, 2009. Advance Reading Copy. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x1. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. 292 pages; Trade Paperback Advanced Reading Copy to the 1st edition (ARC); slight amount of soiling to bottom page ends; Kurdistan, Persia. A village high in the Zagros mountains. A small green-eyed boy wrestles free from his mother and climbs atop a straw and mud hut to gaze at the dusty landscape; the jagged mountains and azure sky, the cattle in the distance. With his arms stretched out beside him he pretends to be a bird, to lift up and soar over this land: the land of his fathers and forefathers. Kurdish land. Soon after the boy is ritually initiated into manhood, messengers from the hills bring whispers of war; rumours that the Shah's army is moving from village to village, stamping out any tribal rebellion that may stand in the way of the creation of a unified 'Iran'. Just nine years old, the boy must stand alongside his men and fight for their land. Years later, Reza Pahlavi Khourdi can only faintly recall the brutal murder of his father and cousins. Orphaned on the bloody battlefield, conscripted into the great column of the army and given a new name, he has quickly risen up the ranks, proving both his prowess in battle and allegiance to the Shah's troops. Now in Tehran, Reza is about to marry to a beautiful, educated, city girl, and become a Capitian. But there are stirrings within his heart. He will soon move west to be the Shah's servant in Kermanshah, the land of his birth, and a figurehead of modernization. At once rich and bleak, The Age of Orphans unleashes a tapestry of untold horrors and pleasures, of blood and smoke, hopes, dreams and desires. It is a profound and darkly poetic story of a land roughly sewn together under the ambitious imagining of a nation, and of the life of a boy whose identity does not - can not - unite with this vision.
Synopsis
Laleh Khadivi was born in Iran in 1977, but fled with her family to the United States in the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution. She has taught, and worked as a documentary film maker, and currently lives in Atlanta, where she is Fiction Fellow at Emory University.
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- Kayleighbug Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 011199
- Title
- The Age of Orphans: A Novel
- Author
- Khadivi, Laleh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Advance Reading Copy
- ISBN 10
- 1596916168
- ISBN 13
- 9781596916166
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Usa
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Size
- 8x5x1
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Fiction;
- X weight
- 14 oz
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