In 1982, ten-year old Dalia Sofer and her family emigrated from Iran to the United States. Having survived the 1979 Iranian revolution together, they then endured the incarceration of Sofer’s father, falsely accused of being a Zionist spy, in Tehran’s Evin prison. In The Septembers of Shiraz, a remarkably accomplished debut novel that has been sold to publishers in France, Germany, Holland, Israel, Spain, U.K., Italy, Brazil and Turkey, Sofer recreates the resounding effects of a patriarch’s political isolation and torture on each member of his family.
Painting a moving portrait of a family in distress set against the devastating background of a country in flux, The Septembers of Shiraz explores universal questions regarding identity, loss, alienation, faith, loyalty, and love in the face of overwhelming odds.
Dalia Sofer was born in Tehran, Iran, where she lived until the age of ten. After time in Israel she arrived in New York, where she attended the Lycée Français de New York, and later, New York University. Ms. Sofer received an MFA in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence College.
“Nicely layered, the story shimmers with past secrets and hidden motivations. Sofer’s dramatization of just-post-revolutionary Iran captures its small tensions and larger brutalities, which play vividly upon a family that cannot, even if it wishes to, conform.” — Publishers Weekly
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