Name: The Lion Women of Tehran
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Author: Marjan Kamali
ISBN: 9781668036587

Type

Physical Book

Author

Marjan Kamali

Publisher

Gallery Books

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm

Weight

0.51 kg.

ISBN13

9781668036587

Synopsis "The Lion Women of Tehran"

From the nationally bestselling author of the "powerful, heartbreaking" (Shelf Awareness) The Stationery Shop, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran. In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother's endless grievances, Ellie dreams of a friend to alleviate her isolation. Luckily, on the first day of school, she meets Homa, a kind, passionate girl with a brave and irrepressible spirit. Together, the two girls play games, learn to cook in the stone kitchen of Homa's warm home, wander through the colorful stalls of the Grand Bazaar, and share their ambitions for becoming "lion women." But their happiness is disrupted when Ellie and her mother are afforded the opportunity to return to their previous bourgeois life. Now a popular student at the best girls' high school in Iran, Ellie's memories of Homa begin to fade. Years later, however, her sudden reappearance in Ellie's privileged world alters the course of both of their lives. Together, the two young women come of age and pursue their own goals for meaningful futures. But as the political turmoil in Iran builds to a breaking point, one earth-shattering betrayal will have enormous consequences. Written with Marjan Kamali's signature "evocative, devastating, and hauntingly beautiful" (Whitney Scharer, author of The Age of Light) prose, The Lion Women of Tehran is a sweeping exploration of how profoundly we are shaped by those we meet when we are young, and the way love and courage transforms our lives.

Marjan Kamali

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Marjan Kamali es una escritora iraní-estadounidense nacida en Turquía en 1971. Su vida ha estado marcada por una constante movilidad geográfica; pasó su infancia en varios países, incluyendo Irán, Alemania, Kenia y los Estados Unidos. Esta experiencia multicultural ha influido profundamente en su escritura, que a menudo explora temas de identidad, pertenencia, migración y amor a través del lente de la diáspora iraní.

Kamali estudió literatura inglesa en la Universidad de Berkeley, obtuvo una maestría en administración de empresas en la Universidad de Columbia y un MFA en escritura creativa en la Universidad de Nueva York. Su formación diversa le ha permitido desarrollar una voz literaria rica y matizada.

Su primera novela, Together Tea (2013), trata sobre una madre y su hija iraní-estadounidense en busca de conexión y sentido entre dos culturas. Su obra más conocida, The Stationery Shop (2019), es una emotiva historia de amor interrumpido durante el golpe de Estado en Irán de 1953, que ha sido traducida a varios idiomas y aclamada internacionalmente.

Kamali vive en Massachusetts y continúa escribiendo ficción centrada en la experiencia iraní, tanto en Irán como en el exilio, con una sensibilidad que combina historia, emociones y conflicto cultural.

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