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The Book of Fate
A teenager in pre-revolutionary Tehran, Massoumeh is an ordinary girl, passionate about learning. On her way to school she meets a local man and falls in love - but when her family discover his letters they accuse her of bringing them into dishonour. She is badly beaten by her brother, and her parents hastily arrange a marriage to a man she's never met. Facing a life without love, and the prospect of no education, Massoumeh is distraught - but a female neighbour urges her to comply: 'We each have a destiny, and you can't fight yours.' The years that follow Massoumeh's wedding prove transformative for Iran. Hamid, Massoumeh's husband, is a political dissident and a threat to the Shah's oppressive regime and when the secret service arrive to arrest him, it is the start of a terrifying period for Massoumeh. Her fate, so long dictated by family loyalty and tradition, is now tied to the changing fortunes of her country. Spanning five turbulent decades of Iranian history, from before the 1979 revolution, through the Islamic Republic and up to the present, The Book of Fate is a powerful story of friendship and passion, fear and hope - and a rare insider's view of Iranian society.
I Hid My Voice
This is the story, based on fact, of a boy who couldn't speak until the age of seven. Now twenty, he describes the events of his life. Four-year-old Shahaab has not started talking. The family doctor believes there is no cause for concern; nevertheless, Shahaab is ridiculed by others who call him 'dumb'. Young Shahaab doesn't understand what the word means and thinks it is a compliment, until one day his cousin plays a trick on him to prove to everyone that the boy truly is the neighbourhood idiot. When his mother recounts the incident to her husband, Shahaab is crushed to learn that his father also thinks the boy's speech impediment indicates that his son is an idiot and thus brings shame o...
Le Voile de Téhéran
"Quand j'ai repris mes esprits, je me trouvais chez cet homme, dans la chambre à coucher. Debout dans un coin de la pièce, je serrais étroitement contre moi le tchador blanc dont on m'avait affublée avant de me conduire dans cette maison. J'essayais de ne faire aucun bruit, espérant qu'il ne remarquerait pas ma présence. Dans ce silence absolu, les larmes coulaient jusque sur ma poitrine. Mon Dieu, comment comprendre ces moeurs ? Un jour, ma famille voulait me tuer sous prétexte que j'avais échangé quelques mots avec un homme que je connaissais depuis deux ans, sur lequel je savais beaucoup de choses, que j'aimais et que j'étais prête à suivre au bout du monde, et le lendemain el...
La Voix cachée
Après le succès du Voile de Téhéran, le nouveau roman de Parinoush Saniee. À quatre ans, Shahaab ne parle toujours pas. Protégé par sa mère, il n'a pas conscience de sa différence et vit heureux. Puis il découvre que son entourage, y compris son père, le prend pour un idiot et se moque constamment de lui. Son monde de paix et d'harmonie s'écroule. Comment faire face à la violence psychologique dont il est victime ? Submergé par la révolte, Shahaab devient un véritable petit démon. Jusqu'à l'arrivée de sa grand-mère. À force d'amour et d'écoute, elle le délivre de sa rage et lui apprend à communiquer. Les voix de Shahaab et de sa mère, Maryam, se mêlent pour raconter cette histoire vraie d'une enfance brisée puis reconstruite. De livre en livre, Parinoush Saniee dénonce l'aveuglement des parents iraniens, déchirés entre leur volonté d'émancipation et la pression d'un islam rigoriste, face à la détresse de leurs enfants.
The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton
Struggling with trauma in the years following World War I, veteran Lawrence Bartram arrives in the village of Easton Deadall and is embroiled in a dangerous case involving a murdered woman who may be linked to the disappearance of a child years earlier.
Girl Trouble
'A brilliant cultural history.' Irish Examiner Girls behave badly. If they're not obscenity-shouting, pint-swigging ladettes, they're narcissistic, living dolls floating around in a cloud of self-obsession, far too busy twerking to care. And this is news. In this witty and wonderful book, Carol Dyhouse shows that where there's a social scandal or a wave of moral outrage, you can bet a girl is to blame. Whether it be stories of 'brazen flappers' staying out and up all night in the 1920s, inappropriate places for Mars bars in the 1960s or Courtney Love's mere existence in the 1990s, bad girls have been a mass-media staple for more than a century. And yet, despite the continued obsession with their perceived faults and blatant disobedience, girls are infinitely better off today than they were a century ago. This is the story of the challenges and opportunities faced by young women growing up in the swirl of the twentieth century, and the pop-hysteria that continues to accompany their progress.
O livro do destino
Adolescente na Teerã pré-revolucionária, Massoumeh é uma menina comum, apaixonada pelos estudos. A caminho da escola, ela conhece um homem, por quem se apaixona — mas, quando seus familiares descobrem as cartas que ele lhe escreve, Massoumeh é apontada como uma desonra para a família. Como consequência, a jovem leva uma surra violenta do irmão autoritário, e seus pais a obrigam a se casar às pressas com um homem que ela nunca viu. Os anos que se seguem ao casamento de Massoumeh revelam-se transformadores para o Irã. Hamid, seu marido, é um dissidente marxista, perseguido primeiramente pelo regime opressor do Xá e depois pelos fundamentalistas que ele próprio ajuda a chegarem ao poder. O destino de Massoumeh, até então ditado pela lealdade à família e à tradição islâmica, passa a ficar atrelado às mudanças radicais no país. O livro do destino abrange cinco décadas turbulentas da história do Irã, em que prevaleceu a repressão, o abuso, a miséria e a privação. É uma história intensa sobre amizade e paixão, medo e esperança — e uma rara visão interna da sociedade iraniana.
À ceux qui sont partis, à ceux qui sont restés
Par l'auteure du Voile de Téhéran, censurée en Iran. Une belle histoire familiale sur la diaspora iranienne. Une famille iranienne séparée par la révolution de 1979 se réunit autour de Mère pendant dix jours dans une maison louée au bord de la mer sur la côte turque. Mère a eu six enfants et n'en a pas revu certains depuis vingt-huit ans. Elle vit avec Dokhi, sa petite-fille, dont les parents ont disparu dans des circonstances qui lui ont toujours été cachées. Au cours du séjour, Mère comprend que le poids des malentendus et du temps écoulé a profondément divisé la famille. Après plusieurs disputes, elle avertit ses enfants : c'est le moment ou jamais de régler les prob...
The Book of Fate
'In six minutes, one of us would be dead. None of us knew it was coming . . .' So says Wes Holloway, a once cocky and ambitious presidential aide, about the day that changed his life forever. On that Fourth of July, Wes put the chief executive’s oldest friend into the presidential limousine. By the time the trip came to an end minutes later, Wes was permanently disfigured, and Ron Boyle was dead, the victim of a crazed assassin. Eight years later, Boyle is spotted, alive and well, in Malaysia. In that moment, Wes has the chance to undo the worst day of his life. Trying to figure out what really happened takes Wes back to a decade-old presidential crossword puzzle, mysterious facts buried in Masonic history, and a code invented by Thomas Jefferson two hundred years ago. But what Wes doesn’t realise is that The Book of Fate holds everyone’s secrets. Especially the ones worth dying for . . .
Ho nascosto la mia voce
Dopo lo straordinario successo di Quello che mi spetta, torna Parinoush Saniee, l’autrice che ha raccontato le donne iraniane e la loro lotta contro il fanatismo. Ho nascosto la mia voce è un nuovo caso editoriale in pubblicazione in tutto il mondo, ma censurato in Iran. Le parole non dette di un bambino diventano un grido contro l’insensibilità e l’indifferenza. Perché spesso ci si dimentica del valore di un gesto, di una carezza, di un abbraccio. Spesso non si riconosce quanto sia meraviglioso quel fiore diverso da tutti gli altri, e per questo ancora più speciale. Iran. Shahab adora guardare la luna, che se ne sta nel cielo, silenziosa. Come lui. Perché Shahab ha quattro anni, ...
