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Landscapes of a Distant Mother (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
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Landscapes of a Distant Mother (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
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The state of exile is often described as being without a country.
Born in Tehran but living in Germany, the eminent Iranian writer
Said has suffered two forms of exile. Estranged from Iran for
political reasons, he was also separated from his mother shortly
after his birth when his parents divorced. At the age of
forty-three, however, Said received word that his mother was
traveling abroad and wanted to see him. Landscapes of a Distant
Mother is the account of his journey to her and their wrenching
reunion. An autobiography of longing and loss, the book offers a
haunting portrait of a son's broken relationship with his mother
and the Islamic dictatorship that shadows both their lives.
Landscapes of a Distant Mother gives English-speaking readers an
introduction to one of Europe's most important immigrant writers.
Unsentimental and spare, the book chronicles the discomfiting
sensation of viewing one's mother as a stranger and all the
psychological implications of their mutual disappointment. Said's
distance from his mother - whom he describes almost clinically,
with her "particular way of speaking, the style laced with
religious formulas, inclined to emotionalism, self-pity and
expletives" - becomes a measure of the alienation he feels from
everything around him. In this sharp, extended letter to his
mother, Said gives voice to the full meaning of modern exile - its
political force, profound sadness, and perpetual yearning.
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