Virgin of Solitude - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor Taghi Modarressi was born in Iran and educated as a doctor. He continued his education in the United States and became a member of the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He is the author of The Book of Absent People and The Pilgrim's Rules of Etiquette . He was married to the novelist, Anne Tyler. Nasrin Rahimieh is Maseeh Chair and Director of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture at the University of California, Irvine, where she is also professor of comparative literature. She is the author of Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History, also published by Syracuse University Press. Klappentext A novel that follows the parallel lives of a transplanted Austrian woman, who has made Iran her home, and her grandson, Nuri, who desperately misses his mother but hides his longing behind a veneer of teenage bravado. Zusammenfassung A novel that follows the parallel lives of a transplanted Austrian woman! who has made Iran her home! and her grandson! Nuri! who desperately misses his mother but hides his longing behind a veneer of teenage bravado.

Product details

• Authors: Taghi Modarressi, Taghi/ Rahimieh Modarressi, Nasrin Rahimieh
• Assisted by: Nasrin Rahimieh (Translation)
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2008
• EAN: 9780815609339
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-0933-9
• No. of pages: 381
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Middle East Literature in Tran; Middle East Literature in Tran; Middle East Literature in Translation
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature