Written with a unique blend of humour and compassion, Persian Brides explores the lives of two young Jewish girls in a Persian village at the turn of the century. The framework plot spans two days in the lives of eleven-year-old Nazie and fifteen-year-old Flora. Nazie has long been engaged to her cousin Moussa and anxiously awaits their marriage. By law, they cannot marry until she begins menstruating. Flora, by contrast, is married, pregnant and seemingly abandoned.Rabinyan's powers of description are astonishing. She ...
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Written with a unique blend of humour and compassion, Persian Brides explores the lives of two young Jewish girls in a Persian village at the turn of the century. The framework plot spans two days in the lives of eleven-year-old Nazie and fifteen-year-old Flora. Nazie has long been engaged to her cousin Moussa and anxiously awaits their marriage. By law, they cannot marry until she begins menstruating. Flora, by contrast, is married, pregnant and seemingly abandoned.Rabinyan's powers of description are astonishing. She creates a cast of characters brimming with vitality, and a village whose odours, colours and textures float effortlessly off the page. The result is one of the freshest and most accomplished first novels of recent years - a vibrant, tragi-comic and stunningly rich novel that resonates at every turn.
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New. The story of two young Jewish girls living in a village in Persia at the turn of the century. Nazie has been long engaged to her cousin and anxiously awaits their marriage whilst Flora is married, pregnant and seemingly abandoned. Translator(s): Lotan, Yael. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 168. 2004. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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I love this novel. A small village´s everyday rotine becomes a masterpiece. In a fantastic realism style of writing, Dorit leads us to a realm of senses. Some moments in the book are hylarious or impossible, but what really makes this book bewitching is the melting pot of tastes, flavours and colours.
