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A Nearby Country Called Love : A Novel Hardcover Salar Abdoh
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- EX-LIBRARY
- Publication Name
- Penguin Publishing Group
- ISBN
- 9780593653906
- Book Title
- Nearby Country Called Love : a Novel
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Family Life, Literary
- Item Width
- 5.7in
- Item Weight
- 12.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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Amid the alleyways of the Zamzam neighborhood of Tehran, a woman lights herself on fire in a desperate act of defiance, setting off a chain reaction of violence and protest. Haunted by the woman's death, Issa is forced to confront the contradictions within his own family as his brother Hashem, a prominent queer artist in Tehran's underground, defies their father, a skilled martial artist bound to traditional notions of honor and masculinity. Issa soon finds himself thrown into a circle of people living on the margins of a society at the brink of combusting, negotiating a razor-like code of conduct that rewards loyalty and encourages aggression and intolerance in equal measure. As the city explodes around him, Issa realizes that it is the little acts of kindness that matter most, the everyday humanity of individuals finding love and doing right by one another. Vibrant and evocative, intimate and intelligent, A Nearby Country Called Love is both a captivating window into contemporary Iran and a portrait of the parallel fates of a man and his country - a man who acknowledges the sullen and rumbling baggage of history but then chooses to step past its violent inheritance.
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0593653904
ISBN-13
9780593653906
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3059015873
Product Key Features
Book Title
Nearby Country Called Love : a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Family Life, Literary
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.7in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3551.B2687n43 2023
Reviews
"Once I glanced at this book I couldn't stop reading, staying up late to gallop through this harrowing, beautiful, surprising novel in one evening. It is an evocation of characters I came to care about, a portrait of everyday life in contemporary Iran, and a profound depiction of gender roles as prisons, and of who escapes these prisons at what cost." --Rebecca Solnit, author of Orwell's Roses "Salar Abdoh's novel takes us to Iran, with its furies and contradictions--but more importantly, it takes us to the perilous borderland between men and women. His generous story suggests that those of us who live in these worlds--Iranians, Americans, men, women--might yet find solace and peace and love." --Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders and (with Jodi Picoult) Mad Honey "With a singular brilliance, wit, and lyricism, Salar Abdoh takes us in his confidence to illustrate that our lives are not repeated patterns of commonplace existence, but rather overflowing with unexplored rooms in our wayward, lovesick hearts. This is a classic work of a serious, firmly disciplined writer whose heroes are love and compassion." --Ernesto Quiñonez, author of Bodega Dreams "Astonishing and intense, A Nearby Country Called Love is a story of two brothers on opposite sides of the sexual identity divide, their destinies played out in an intergenerational tragedy of moral and cultural errors only possible in contemporary Iran. No novelist writing in English has better captured the weirdness, lies, and occasional transcendence of the Islamic Republic than Salar Abdoh, or delivered a tale turning on the unintended consequences of fatwa-approved sex-change operations leading to the range of trans characters tenderly observed here. My high praise: Abdoh's novel is as good and poetic as the best indie neorealist films coming out of Iran." --Brad Gooch, author of Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love "Salar Abdoh has traveled to the limits of the expressible in the Middle East. In treating the violence and injustice done to so many, he also elegantly fuses the classics of Arabic and Persian literature in order to write a meditation on love that is at once intensely of our time yet utterly transcendental." --Nouri al-Jarrah, author of A Boat to Lesbos, "Salar Abdoh has traveled to the limits of the expressible in the Middle East. In treating the violence and injustice done to so many, he also elegantly fuses the classics of Arabic and Persian literature in order to write a meditation on love that is at once intensely of our time yet utterly transcendental." --Nouri al-Jarrah, author of A Boat to Lesbos, "Once I glanced at this book I couldn''t stop reading, staying up late to gallop through this harrowing, beautiful, surprising novel in one evening. It is an evocation of characters I came to care about, a portrait of everyday life in contemporary Iran, and a profound depiction of gender roles as prisons, and of who escapes these prisons at what cost." --Rebecca Solnit, author of Orwell''s Roses "Salar Abdoh''s novel takes us to Iran, with its furies and contradictions--but more importantly, it takes us to the perilous borderland between men and women. His generous story suggests that those of us who live in these worlds--Iranians, Americans, men, women--might yet find solace and peace and love." --Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of She''s Not There: A Life in Two Genders and (with Jodi Picoult) Mad Honey "Salar Abdoh''s brutal and beautiful A Nearby Country Called Love recalls the ancient struggles between love and strife, duty and desire, destiny and will, passed down by Persian storytellers of old. The novel''s setting is a modern Iran in the grip of the Islamic State, but its landscape is the human heart, which--regardless of country or faith--wants what it wants. This drama, this play, really, is a tragedy of loves placed in a crucible of unrequited love, each emerging unexpectedly new, if not entirely whole again. Salar Abdoh knows well the perceived abyss that exists between the lands of East and West, one as wide as the distance between strangers and brothers, hatred and tenderness. And yet, from that place, he has given us a modern classic." --Andrew Krivák, author of Like the Appearance of Horses and The Bear "Reading this book was almost like encountering a magic trick, but without any of the sleight of hand of a stage show. Instead of lights and shimmering capes, Salar Abdoh uses nuance, care, and remarkably vivid language to make this story billow from something at first seemingly small--a story about two Iranian friends navigating their complicated masculinity and facing their impacted anger--into an ever-expanding, wildly hopeful tale of love in the wake of trauma. Abdoh is at once honest and encouraging in this portrait of contemporary relationships, conjuring a story that show us how to build chosen families and honor blood ties despite and through the violence of modern life." --Emily Nemens, author of The Cactus League "With a singular brilliance, wit, and lyricism, Salar Abdoh takes us in his confidence to illustrate that our lives are not repeated patterns of commonplace existence, but rather overflowing with unexplored rooms in our wayward, lovesick hearts. This is a classic work of a serious, firmly disciplined writer whose heroes are love and compassion." --Ernesto Quiñonez, author of Bodega Dreams "Astonishing and intense, A Nearby Country Called Love is a story of two brothers on opposite sides of the sexual identity divide, their destinies played out in an intergenerational tragedy of moral and cultural errors only possible in contemporary Iran. No novelist writing in English has better captured the weirdness, lies, and occasional transcendence of the Islamic Republic than Salar Abdoh, or delivered a tale turning on the unintended consequences of fatwa-approved sex-change operations leading to the range of trans characters tenderly observed here. My high praise: Abdoh''s novel is as good and poetic as the best indie neorealist films coming out of Iran." --Brad Gooch, author of Rumi''s Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love "Salar Abdoh has traveled to the limits of the expressible in the Middle East. In treating the violence and injustice done to so many, he also elegantly fuses the classics of Arabic and Persian literature in order to write a meditation on love that is at once intensely of our time yet utterly transcendental." --Nouri al-Jarrah, author of A Boat to Lesbos
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