Laleh Khadivi's novel moves fluidly through time, and from the Khourdi brothers to the broader chorus of the Iranian diaspora, to create a stunning sense of a people caught between the ancient and the modern, tossed by political currents/5(9). · The Walking is a deliberate, nakedly passionate confrontation with [Khadivi's] past A successful novel needn't set out to teach us something—to bend us morally—but the precision of Khadivi's sentences, each with a gentle rhythm and a sure-footed intelligence, engenders deep sympathy for the miseries experienced by forced www.doorway.ru: We see him walking the streets; half-heartedly seeking work at a steelworks and a gas station; spending long hours in cinemas, for he has inherited his mother’s love of movies. Khadivi details his escape with his brother in flashbacks: their ride with smugglers into Turkey, followed by a hellish journey on a freighter to the Azores, where.
The Walking Laleh Khadivi. Bloomsbury, $26 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. The Age of Orphans; A Good Country; Buy this book. Author Laleh Khadivi's refugee in "The Walking" -- the second novel of her trilogy about an Iranian family -- is a Kurd who is named after a hero who fought an English king. But when he finally. "Laleh Khadivi is an ambitious, humane storyteller, whose obsessions--place, memory, migration--are those of our age. The Walking is a wonderful, and essential piece of fiction; and further proof of her rare gifts. My heart broke for Saladiin and Ali, for their yearning, their hopes, and their illusions.".
“Laleh Khadivi is an ambitious, humane storyteller, whose obsessions--place, memory, migration--are those of our age. The Walking is a wonderful, and essential piece of fiction; and further proof of her rare gifts. My heart broke for Saladiin and Ali, for their yearning, their hopes, and their illusions.”. Saladin Khourdi has always known he will leave Iran. He spends his days in the cinema, dreaming of Hollywood stars in swimming pools. For his older brother, Ali, Iran is their home, their history. But both will have to leave, when the revolution leads to a killing in their mountain. “The Walking” is Khadivi’s second novel in a planned trilogy about several generations of an Iranian family.
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