

The Septembers of Shiraz
Author: Dalia Sofer
Narrator: Firdous Bamji
Unabridged: 10 hr 32 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 06/19/2009
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Dalia Sofer
Narrator: Firdous Bamji
Unabridged: 10 hr 32 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 06/19/2009
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Dalia Sofer is the author of the national bestseller The Septembers of Shiraz, which won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award, was long-listed for the Orange Prize, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. It was published in sixteen countries. Sofer has received a Whiting Award, and her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Believer, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications. Born in Tehran, Iran, she lives in New York City.
I always feel somewhat iffy about novels set in Iran. I'm starting to realize that I -- an Iranian-American who tries to connect to her heritage in a variety of ways -- am not the target audience for these kind of books. These books seem to be written for a different target audience -- the American......more
Like most of the literature I've encountered that deals with the Iranian revolution, this novel comes from the perspective of a privileged family. While it rationalises the motives of the people who abuse them, giving those abusers a few chances to express their feelings about the inequality and opp......more
This book is both less and more than I expected. From a pure entertainment standpoint, I was disappointed; not so much because of the pacing (which is on the slow side, although the book is a quick read overall), but because I was hoping for a book that read like historical fiction, while this one r......more