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A Teaspoon Of Earth And Sea
Dina Nayeri
Riverhead
February 2013
On Sale: January 23, 2013
432 pages
ISBN: 1594487049
EAN: 9781594487040
Kindle: B008ON3XWW
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Fiction Family Life | Contemporary
A magical novel about a young Iranian woman lifted from
grief by her powerful imagination and love of Western
culture. Growing up in a small rice-farming village in 1980s Iran,
eleven-year-old Saba Hafezi and her twin sister, Mahtab, are
captivated by America. They keep lists of English words and
collect illegal Life magazines, television shows, and
rock music. So when her mother and sister disappear, leaving
Saba and her father alone in Iran, Saba is certain that they
have moved to America without her. But her parents have
taught her that “all fate is written in the blood,” and that
twins will live the same life, even if separated by land and
sea. As she grows up in the warmth and community of her
local village, falls in and out of love, and struggles with
the limited possibilities in post-revolutionary Iran, Saba
envisions that there is another way for her story to unfold.
Somewhere, it must be that her sister is living the Western
version of this life. And where Saba’s world has all the
grit and brutality of real life under the new Islamic
regime, her sister’s experience gives her a freedom and
control that Saba can only dream of. Filled with a colorful cast of characters and presented in a
bewitching voice that mingles the rhythms of Eastern
storytelling with modern Western prose, A Teaspoon of
Earth and Sea is a tale about memory and the
importance of controlling one’s own fate.
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