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Title
The walking
Author
Laleh Khadivi
format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Language
English
UK Publication Date
20140116

Iran. 1979. The mullahs have come to power and they want everyone to know. Two young Kurdish brothers, Saladin and Ali, are forced to swear their loyalty to the new regime by taking part in a massacre. In the traumatic aftermath of the killing they flee.For Saladin, the younger, the decision to travel west is exciting; this is the direction of Hollywood, Los Angeles, America. But his euphoria is not enough for the reluctant Ali, who belongs, heart and soul, to the mountain town of his birth. As they cross the treacherous Zagros mountains by foot to Istanbul, to the Azores by freighter and finally as smuggled cargo aboard a plane to Los Angeles, Saladin realises that his dream of a better future can only be fulfilled alone. And as he walks along the hot, shimmering beaches of the promised land, unbearably dislocated, Saladin must define who he will become - and who he's always been. Haunting and beautifully-written, The Walking is a story of exodus; of those many people torn between the lure of home and the lure of hope.

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Laleh Khadivi was born in Esfahan, Iran, in 1977. In the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution her family fled, finally settling in Canada and then the United States. Khadivi received her MFA from Mills College and was a Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction at Emory University. In 2008 she received The Whiting Writers' Award. In 2009 she published her first novel The Age of Orphans. Laleh Khadivi lives in California.

Khadivi is capable of lyricism and poetry, whether conjuring up nature, elegiac feelings; or sensations associated with travel ... This is a brave and haunting book about displacement and identity
Independent

A strangely distancing style, as though the self-conscious beauty of her prose and the distressing events she writes about are ultimately irreconcilable, which in many ways they are
Sunday Herald

This is a story of exodus, a haunting novel of the immigrant experience in America that reflects the author's own experiences as a refugee of the Islamic Revolution
Bookseller

Type
BOOK
Edition
1st paperback ed
Keyword Index
Kurds - United States - Fiction.|Iran - History - Revolution, 1979 - Fiction.
Country of Publication
England
Number of Pages
272

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