Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in fiction Tehran, 1978:
Nahid and Masood, both eighteen, are young lovers and young
revolutionaries, determined to overthrow the Shah's regime and help
to bring about democracy. Their clandestine activities are
dangerous, but with youth, passion and right on their side, they
feel invincible. Then one night, Nahid allows her younger sister to
come along to a huge demonstration. Violence breaks out. Nahid lets
go of her sister's hand. Everything changes. As the revolution
sours, and the loss becomes too much to bear, Nahid and Masood are
forced to flee to Sweden, on borrowed money with forged passports.
Tehran is no longer safe for them, and now they are expecting a
baby; they need to get out before they lose everything. Thirty
years later, Nahid lies in a hospital bed replaying her life,
raging at her carers, at her recent cancer diagnosis, at Masood, at
her - now pregnant - daughter, and at her exile among people who
while purporting to understand know nothing of what she has been
through. Told with startling honesty, dark wit and an irresistible
momentum, What We Owe is a novel of love, guilt and dreams for a
better future, vibrating with both sorrow and an unquenchable joie
de vivre.
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