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Persian brides
- Title
- Persian brides / a novel by Dorit Rabinyan ; translated from the Hebrew by Yael Lotan.
- Author
- Rabinyan, Dorit.
- Publication
- New York : George Braziller, 1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PJ5054.R257 S5613 1998 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Lotan, Yael, 1935-
- Description
- 236 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Set at the turn of the century in the fictional Persian village of Omerijan, Persian Brides tells the magical story of two young girls - Flora and Nazie Ratoryan - and their many neighbors in the almond tree alley in Omerijan where they live.
- Fifteen-years-old, pregnant, and recently abandoned by her cloth-merchant husband, Flora longs desperately for the return of her unborn baby's father. Nazie consoles and pities her, and though she is still only a child of eleven, she yearns - just as desperately - for her own future marriage. Although the narrative spans only two days, it branches out and back, encompassing the lives and histories of many of Omerijan's inhabitants.
- A blend of fantasy and reality, the narrative forcefully conveys shocking cruelties endured by many of the characters while at the same time weaving a modern-day Arabic legend where snakes offer jewels in exchange for milk and death is thwarted by appeasing the village demons.
- Uniform Title
- Simṭat ha-sheḳediyot be-ʻOmerig'an. English
- Alternative Title
- Simṭat ha-sheḳediyot be-ʻOmerig'an.
- ISBN
- 0807614300 (hardcover)
- LCCN
- 97045493
- OCLC
- 37836685
- ocm37836685
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries