by Dalia Sofer · Piemme · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788838486906
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«La città delle rose» is the novel by Dalia Sofer, published by Piemme in paperback (318 pages, in Italian).
Set in Tehran after the Islamic revolution, it tells how the arrest of Isaac Amin, a Jewish jeweller accused of espionage, tears his family apart: Farnaz tries to piece together the signs of a crumbling life, Parviz seeks an anchor for his roots in New York, and Shirin, his young daughter, tries to understand the disappearances around her.
Original title: «The Septembers of Shiraz» (2007). Translated by Caterina Lenzi. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize and winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize.
Recommended for readers of literary and historical fiction interested in contemporary Iran and in stories of family, exile and resilience.
