Persian Brides

Zusatztext Lush, lyrical and disturbing. . . Rabinyan's marvellously digressive style and rich prose give the story the feel of a night-long wedding feast. Informationen zum Autor DORIT RABINYAN was born in 1972 in Kfar Saba, Israel, to a Jewish family that had emigrated from Iran. Persian Brides is her first novel, which she wrote at the age of twenty-one, using her family stories. She has also written a book of poems and a second novel, Our Weddings (Bloomsbury, 2001). Klappentext While eleven-year-old Nazie has long been engaged to her cousin Moussa and anxiously awaits her marriage, fifteen-year-old Flora has been abandoned by her husband in the midst of a difficult pregnancy. Zusammenfassung While eleven-year-old Nazie has long been engaged to her cousin Moussa and anxiously awaits her marriage, fifteen-year-old Flora has been abandoned by her husband in the midst of a difficult pregnancy.

Product details

• Authors: Dorit Rabinyan, Rabinyan Dorit
• Assisted by: Yael Lotan (Translation), Yoel Lotan (Translation), Lotan Yael (Translation)
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.02.2004
• EAN: 9781841955100
• ISBN: 978-1-84195-510-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary