Parnaz Foroutan

The Girl from the Garden

Sprecher: Issaq, Lameece

• Audio CD

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 422 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504625531
• Artikelnr.: 43549662

Autorenporträt

Parnaz Foroutan is the author of Home is a Stranger and The Girl from the Garden. She was born in Iran and spent her early childhood there. She received PEN USA's Emerging Voices fellowship for this novel, which was inspired by her own family history. She has been named to the Hedgebrook fellowship and residency, and received funding from the Elizabeth George Foundation, among other institutions. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two daughters.

Rezensionen

"A lush debut... Foroutan is a modern-day Scheherazade, weaving her tale through the entire 20th century, from an aging woman in her L.A. garden to the brothers whose determination to spawn heirs tortured the harem she was raised in." Willamette Week