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The Blind Owl (Paperback)
Sadegh Hedayat; Translated by D.P. Costello; Introduction by Porochista Khakpour
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For as long as Porochista Khakpour can remember, she has been sick.
For most of that time, she didn't know why. A story of survival,
pain and transformation, Sick examines the colossal impact of
illness on one woman's life. It is a journey that took Porochista
Khakpour from Tehran, the town of her birth, through the major
cities of America, the country she came to call home, before she
eventually found a diagnosis of late-stage Lyme disease. Sick
explores what it means to feel at home in one's body, and also
one's country. And what it means not to.
With rolling storytelling cadences and wry wit that recall Zadie
Smith's White Teeth and Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters, Porochista
Khakpour, a young writer who emigrated to California from Tehran at
age three, has delivered an extraordinary debut that marks her as a
major and outrageously gifted new voice. Sons and Other Flammable
Objects is a unique and powerful first novel, at once a comedy and
a tragedy, a family history and a modern coming-of-age story with a
distinctly timeless resonance. Growing up, Xerxes Adam is painfully
aware that he is different--with an understanding of his Iranian
heritage that vacillates from typical teenage embarrassment to
something so tragic it can barely be spoken. His father, Darius,
dwells obsessively on his sense of exile, and fantasizes about a
nonexistent daughter he can relate to better than his living son;
Xerxes's mother changes her name and tries to make friends; but
neither of them offers their son anything he can actually use to
make sense of the terrifying, violent last moments in a homeland he
barely remembers. As he grows into manhood and moves to New York,
his major goal in life is to completely separate from his parents,
but when he meets a beautiful half-Iranian girl on the roof of his
building after New York's own terrifying and violent catastrophe
strikes, it seems Iran will not let Xerxes go. A wry and haunting
first novel from a fresh Iranian-American writer, Sons and Other
Flammable Objects is a sweeping, lyrical tale of suffering,
redemption, and the role of memory and inheritance making peace
with our worlds.
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