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The Pomegranate Lady And Her Sons
Goli Taraghi
Selected Stories
W.W. Norton
November 2013
On Sale: October 22, 2013
335 pages ISBN: 039306333X EAN: 9780393063332 Kindle: B00CF2M9EQ Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction
Rich in characters both whimsical and deeply poignant,
humorous and real, the stories of Goli Taraghi have made her
one of the world’s most beloved contemporary writers from
Iran. A best-selling author in her native country and widely
anthologized in the United States and around the world,
Taraghi's work is now made fully accessible to an
English-speaking audience in this standout and long-awaited
volume of selected stories. Drawing on childhood experiences in Tehran during the reign
of the Shah, her exile in Paris, and her subsequent visits
to Tehran after the revolution, Taraghi develops characters
and tales that linger in one’s mind. In the title story, a
woman traveling from Tehran to Paris is obliged to help an
old woman—the Pomegranate Lady—find her way to her fugitive
sons in Sweden. In "The Gentleman Thief," a new kind of
polite, apologetic thief emerges from the wreckage of the
revolution. In "Encounter," a woman's world is upended when
her former maid becomes her jailer. And in "The Flowers of
Shiraz," a group of teenagers finally manages to coax a shy
schoolmate out of her shell—only to once again encounter
tragedy. Reminiscent of the work of Nadine Gordimer and Eudora Welty,
Taraghi's stories capture universal experiences of love,
loss, alienation, and belonging—all with an irresistible
sense of life’s absurdities.
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