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While eleven-year-old Nazie has long been engaged to her cousin Moussa and anxiously awaits her marriage, fifteen-year-old Flora has been abandoned by her husband in the midst of a difficult pregnancy. In a novel brimming with vitality and sensuality - smells, colours and textures float effortlessly off the page - Rabinyan examines the lives of these young Jewish girls in a Persian village at the beginning of the twentieth century. Persian Brides is a widely-acclaimed, vibrant and award-winning debut of immense emotional power.
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Persian Brides, Dorit Rabinyan
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- Released
- 2004
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- Title
- Persian Brides
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Dorit Rabinyan
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Released
- 2004
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 208
- ISBN10
- 1841955108
- ISBN13
- 9781841955100
- Series
- Original title
- Simtat haš-šeqēdiyyôt be-ʿOmērîǧân
- Rating
- 3 out of 5
- Description
- While eleven-year-old Nazie has long been engaged to her cousin Moussa and anxiously awaits her marriage, fifteen-year-old Flora has been abandoned by her husband in the midst of a difficult pregnancy. In a novel brimming with vitality and sensuality - smells, colours and textures float effortlessly off the page - Rabinyan examines the lives of these young Jewish girls in a Persian village at the beginning of the twentieth century. Persian Brides is a widely-acclaimed, vibrant and award-winning debut of immense emotional power.