“Tina Kover’s translation from French is lively and complex, with Négar Djavadi’s rich, elegant sentences shining through.”― Vox Another award-winner is Négar Djavadi’s debut, Disoriental, translated by Tina Kover. beautifully captures the 'disorientation' of exile and the attempt to reconstruct a self through family stories.'―Dalia Sofer, The New York Times “In her remarkable novel, 'Disoriental,' Negar Djavadi. 'Like the best kind of fable, it is a tale of the solace and constriction of tradition and the magic and danger of reinvention.”― The Times Literary Supplement 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. It is Kimiâ herself––punk-rock aficionado, storyteller extraordinaire, a Scheherazade of our time, and above all a modern woman divided between family traditions and her own “disorientalization”––who forms the heart of this bestselling and beloved novel.

In the waiting room of a Parisian fertility clinic, generations of flamboyant Sadrs return to her, including her formidable great-grandfather Montazemolmolk, with his harem of fifty-two wives, and her parents, Darius and Sara, stalwart opponents of each regime that befalls them. Now twenty-five and facing the future she has built for herself as well as the prospect of a new generation, Kimiâ is inundated by her own memories and the stories of her ancestors, which come to her in unstoppable, uncontainable waves. Kimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. In this high-spirited, kaleidoscopic story, key moments of Iranian history, politics, and culture punctuate stories of family drama and triumph. ONE OF THE GLOBE & MAIL’S BEST BOOKS OF 2018

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