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Children of the Jacaranda Tree
"Children of the Jacaranda Tree is a novel told from alternating perspectives and reveals the intimate side of the Iranian revolution. It centers on Iran's violent summer of 1988 and follows a group of mothers, fathers, children, and lovers as they are affected by the tide of history"-- Provided by publisher.
The Novel "Children of the Jacaranda Tree" from Sahar Delijani. Effects of diasporic, postmodern and gender based Narration
Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Literature - Middle East, , language: English, abstract: The paper analyzises the effects of diasporic, postmodern and gender based voice in the novel "Children of the Jacaranda Tree" from Sahar Delijani. Sahar Delijani an Iranian author whose debut novel, Children of the Jacaranda Tree, is a novel which reflects a female writer’s voice out of her country which symbolically presents a diasporic, gender based voice. This voice has been raised out of her homeland (abroad, in USA and Italy) and tries to reflect her voice in her second language with a globalized view based on her natural feminist and cultural background. Her novel is a political ...
Children of the Jacaranda Tree
A country divided by revolution. A people united by love. CHILDREN OF THE JACARANDA TREE is an astonishing debut reminiscent of THE KITE RUNNER and HALF A YELLOW SUN. Deep in Tehran's Evin Prison, Azar gives birth to a baby girl. Corridors away, Amir is making a bracelet out of date stones. He hopes that one day his daughter will hold it in her hands. As a camera shutter closes, three children are fixed in time. These children cannot remember their mothers' faces. But their mothers will treasure the photos, daring to imagine the life that goes on beyond prison walls. Revolution has torn the future from the past. But these children, the children of the jacaranda tree, will have the chance to grow. They will go into exile, they will find love and they will return home to Iran. But they will also have to confront the terrible legacies passed from one generation to the next when the cold boot of history stamps on individual lives. CHILDREN OF THE JACARANDA TREE is a novel about the ghosts of revolution. It is a novel about forging the future when your past is too painful to remember. It is a novel that you will never forget.
Les Jacarandas de Téhéran
Neda, née dans la prison d'Evin de Téhéran, est arrachée à sa mère au bout de quelques mois. Omid, trois ans, est témoin de l'arrestation de ses parents dissidents. Comme d'autres enfants de prisonniers politiques, ils seront élevés par leurs proches, à l'ombre des jacarandas, ces arbres violets flamboyants qui berceront leur enfance. Vingt ans après, cette génération porte toujours le poids du passé, alors que commence une nouvelle vague de protestations et de luttes politiques... Inspiré par l'histoire de Sahar Delijani, née en prison comme Neda, Les jacarandas de Téhéran déroule dans l'Iran de 1979 à nos jours l'itinéraire de trois générations d'hommes, de femmes et d'enfants, épris de poésie, de justice et de liberté. Un roman magnifique et bouleversant. Un livre que vous n'oublierez pas. « Situé dans l'Iran postrévolutionnaire, ce roman saisissant est une condamnation impitoyable de la tyrannie, un vibrant hommage à ceux qui en portent les cicatrices et à la liberté, éternelle aspiration de l'homme. » Khaled Hosseini
Jacarandatreets barn
Sahar Delijanis debutroman, Jacarandatreets barn, er hyllet av både kritikere og forfattere. Boken er basert på Delijanis egen historie, og er en gripende roman om den iranske revolusjonens mørke hemmeligheter. Fortellingen spenner over tre generasjoner, og gir et levende portrett av sterke menn og kvinner. Drevet av kjærlighet, poesi og brennende idealisme jakter de på evig rettferdighet og frihet. Sahar Delijanis rike og levende språk fanger essensen av revolusjonens menneskelige aspekter på en gripende måte. «Delijanis sterke roman er et brennende oppgjør mot tyranniet, en gripende honnør til de som bærer med seg arrene etter undertrykkelse, og en hyllest til menneskets evige søken etter frihet.» Khaled Hosseini, forfatter
Kinder des Jacarandabaums
Sie spielen im Hof, unter den blühenden Zweigen des Jacarandabaums. Wie ganz normale, glückliche Kinder sehen sie aus, Neda und ihre Cousinen. Doch die Mütter sind fort, eingesperrt für ihren Kampf um Freiheit im Iran. Jahre später, als Neda sich in den jungen Reza verliebt, begreift sie, dass die Vergangenheit der Eltern ihre Liebe zu zerstören droht. Neda beschließt, das jahrelange Schweigen über das Geschehene zu brechen. Sahar Delíjanís bewegender Roman ist ein großes Panorama der Generationen und eine Liebeserklärung an die Menschen in ihrer Heimat.
The Girls in Queens
A MOST ANTICIPATED SUMMER READ FROM HARPER'S BAZAAR, BUSTLE, NYLON, THE MILLIONS, MS. MAGAZINE, and THE SKIMM An unforgettable debut novel about the furious loyalty of two Latinx women coming of age in Queens, New York, an emotionally resonant novel infused with the insight, power, and poignancy of Angie Cruz’s Dominicana, Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn, and Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends. Growing up in the ’90s along Clement Moore Avenue in Queens, Brisma and Kelly are two young Latinas with an inseparable bond, sharing everything and anything with each other. The girls are opposites: Brisma is sweet, sensitive, and observant, whereas Kelly is free-spirited, flirta...
The Atria Summer 2013 Beach-Read Bag
The Atria Summer 2013 Beach-Read Bag: A free collection of thirteen excerpts from novels by some of our favorite writers. There’s nothing that goes better with beach season than a delicious novel. With that in mind, we present Atria’s Summer 2013 Beach-Read Bag: a free collection of 13 excerpts from novels by some of our favorite writers. Selections include: The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally The Edge of the Earth by Christina Schwartz Five Days by Douglas Kennedy Children of the Jacaranda Tree by Sahar Delijani The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin The Lavender Garden by Lucinda Riley With All My Love by Patricia Scanlon The Mouse-Proof Kitchen by Saira Shah The Longings of Wayward Girls by Karen Brown Waiting for Jules by Tamara N. Houston No matter whether you’re on a plane traveling to your getaway destination or on your couch planted firmly in front of the air conditioner, we’ve got a great story guaranteed to whisk you away on a reading vacation.
The Steady Running of the Hour
An impossible quest. An epic love story. A mesmerizing debut. In 1924, the English mountaineer Ashley Walsingham dies attempting to summit Mount Everest, leaving his fortune to his long-lost lover, Imogen Soames-Andersson—whom he has not seen in seven years. Ashley’s attorneys search in vain for Imogen, but the estate remains unclaimed. Nearly eighty years later, new information leads the same law firm to Tristan Campbell, a young American who could be the estate’s rightful heir. If Tristan can prove he is Imogen’s descendant, the inheritance will be his. But with only weeks before Ashley’s trust expires, Tristan must hurry to find the evidence he needs. From London WWI archives to...
A l'ombra de l'arbre violeta
Una novel·la colpidora ambientada a l’Iran postrevolucionari, basada en les paoroses vivències de l’autora i els seus familiars i amics. Una lectura que roman a la memòria durant molt de temps i que, com la meravellosa El caçador d’estels, amb la qual ha estat comparada, ens obre els ulls a uns mons llunyans en l’espai, però propers en emocions i sentiments. Mares i fills, pares, avis i germans; tres generacions protagonitzen una història dramàtica guiada pels anhels de justícia i llibertat, però encadenada a la barbàrie d’un present que no han triat. Vides comunes que s’entrellacen i que evidencien la repressió, la brutalitat i la injustícia d’un règim, encegat pe...
