7/1/2023 0 Comments Disoriental négar djavadi![]() Nour, a blue-eyed woman born during a violent sandstorm, later went on to give birth to six boys in an arranged marriage. ![]() Kimia then recounts the struggles of her grandmother, Nour. Kimia begins with an anecdote about her own birth she says that she is the granddaughter of a woman from a harem. Kimia lives in Paris – almost immediately, memories and stories of her ancestry intercede on the contemporary scene, and the reader is thrust back into Iran. As the novel opens, Kimia is in a fertility clinic in her adopted home country of France. ![]() Kimia introduces many of her family members, including long-dead ancestors, and tells the story of her own life and the life of her father and mother as they made a home in a new nation after protesting the practices of their government in Iran. ![]() Narrated by twenty-five-year-old Kimiâ Sadr, the novel flips back in forth in time and space between a present-day fertility clinic in Paris and the Iran of Kimia's youth. Disoriental by Négar Djavadi is a novel about the modern impact of diaspora and political resistance on a French-Iranian family forced to flee their home country in the 1980s. ![]()
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