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A TEASPOON OF EARTH AND SEA
By: Dina Nayeri
Riverhead
February 2013
On Sale: January 23, 2013
432 pages
ISBN: 1594487049
EAN: 9781594487040
Kindle: B008ON3XWW
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Contemporary | Fiction Family Life
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 βall fate is written in the blood,β 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 Sabaβs world has all the grit and brutality of real life under the new Islamic regime, her sisterβs 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 oneβs own fate.
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