The Persians

About the author

Sanam Mahloudji was born in Tehran and grew up in Los Angeles after leaving Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Her fiction has won a Pushcart Prize and appears in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, the Kenyon Review, the Idaho Review, Passages North and elsewhere. She was nominated for a 2018 PEN/Robert J Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers for her first published story.

Product details

• Authors: Sanam Mahloudji
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 29.01.2026
• EAN: 9780008589066
• ISBN: 978-0-00-858906-6
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Iran, Sagas, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Sagas, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Family life fiction, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, United States of America, USA, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary