| A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea Contributor(s): Nayeri, Dina (Author) |
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ISBN: 1594632324 ISBN-13: 9781594632327 Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Cultural Heritage - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.75 lbs) 469 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Family - Cultural Region - Middle East - Chronological Period - 1980's - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From the author of Refuge, a magical novel about a young Iranian woman lifted from grief by her powerful imagination and love of Western culture. Growing up in a small rice-farming village in 1980s Iran, eleven-year-old Saba Hafezi and her twin sister, Mahtab, are captivated by America. They keep lists of English words and collect illegal Life magazines, television shows, and rock music. So when her mother and sister disappear, leaving Saba and her father alone in Iran, Saba is certain that they have moved to America without her. But her parents have taught her that "all fate is written in the blood," and that twins will live the same life, even if separated by land and sea. As she grows up in the warmth and community of her local village, falls in and out of love, and struggles with the limited possibilities in post-revolutionary Iran, Saba envisions that there is another way for her story to unfold. Somewhere, it must be that her sister is living the Western version of this life. And where Saba's world has all the grit and brutality of real life under the new Islamic regime, her sister's experience gives her a freedom and control that Saba can only dream of.
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