![]() ![]() Nazanine Hozar's stunning debut takes us inside the Iranian revolution-but seen like never before, through the eyes of an orphan girl. ![]() He snatches up the child, and forever alters his own destiny and that of the little girl, whom he names Aria. Curious, he searches for the source, and to his horror comes upon a newborn baby girl abandoned by the side of the road and encircled by ravenous dogs. One night, a humble driver in the Iranian army is walking home through a neighbourhood in Tehran when he hears a small, pitiful cry. It is the early 1950s in a restless Iran, a country powerful with oil wealth but unsettled by class and religious divides and by a larger world hungry for its resources. A Doctor Zhivago of Iran." -Margaret Atwood (on Twitter) "Here comes a sweeping saga about the Iranian revolution as it explodes-told from the ground level and the centre of chaos. a poised and dramatic historical novel with contemporary relevance." -John Irving ![]() "Aria is a feminist odyssey, about a girl in a time of intolerance as the revolution in Iran is breaking out. ![]() This extraordinary, gripping debut is a rags-to-riches-to-revolution tale about an orphan girl's coming of age in Iran. ![]()
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