A Good Country by Laleh Khadivi
The powerful, moving story of a California teenager from an immigrant family who, finding himself in an increasingly hostile world, is turned from a carefree surfers life towards a culture of fear and fanaticism
Powerful, poignant, excellent * Independent *
Important * Guardian *
Stunning * New York Times *
With insightful, often moving prose, dialogue so exact it echoes from the page, and a stunning balance between compassion and merciless (often damning) realism, Khadivi begins to unravel one of the miseries of the modern political era, which isn’t about politics at all but is entirely contained within the flawed and insatiable human heart -- Dina Nayeri * New York Times *
The narrative is tense and dramatic … An expertly crafted coming-of-age story about radicalisation and cultural integration -- Abdulrazak Gurnah * Guardian *
What would it take for a studious American teenager – the son of hard-working Iranian immigrants, addicted to surfing, his friends, his stoner way of life and girls – to forsake all of that and become a radicalised Muslim? The question is explored brilliantly in Laleh Khadivi’s third novel … The unerring precision of her prose draws you, piece by piece, into Rez’s orbit and makes you concerned for his welfare once the skies darken * Herald *
Khadivi is a massive talent, lyrical, evocative, and unsparing. . Khadivi's feat is a crucial one, especially at this moment in time, when young Muslim men are dehumanized by white Americans far more often than they are understood to be complicated, and individual, human beings …You won't want the book to end * Kirkus Reviews Starred Review *
Engrossing . . . Khadivi's carefully crafted, masterful novel illustrates how the perfect storm of teenage cruelty, racism, and tragedy can create an extremist * Booklist Starred Review *
Brilliantly channeling the minds of angst-filled teenagers with barely formed worldviews who seesaw between brash self-confidence and deflating insecurities . . . Khadivi has written an important, smart, timely novel that rivals such standouts as Karan Mahajan’s The Association of Small Bombs or Moshin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist * Library Journal Starred Review *
Important * Guardian *
Stunning * New York Times *
With insightful, often moving prose, dialogue so exact it echoes from the page, and a stunning balance between compassion and merciless (often damning) realism, Khadivi begins to unravel one of the miseries of the modern political era, which isn’t about politics at all but is entirely contained within the flawed and insatiable human heart -- Dina Nayeri * New York Times *
The narrative is tense and dramatic … An expertly crafted coming-of-age story about radicalisation and cultural integration -- Abdulrazak Gurnah * Guardian *
What would it take for a studious American teenager – the son of hard-working Iranian immigrants, addicted to surfing, his friends, his stoner way of life and girls – to forsake all of that and become a radicalised Muslim? The question is explored brilliantly in Laleh Khadivi’s third novel … The unerring precision of her prose draws you, piece by piece, into Rez’s orbit and makes you concerned for his welfare once the skies darken * Herald *
Khadivi is a massive talent, lyrical, evocative, and unsparing. . Khadivi's feat is a crucial one, especially at this moment in time, when young Muslim men are dehumanized by white Americans far more often than they are understood to be complicated, and individual, human beings …You won't want the book to end * Kirkus Reviews Starred Review *
Engrossing . . . Khadivi's carefully crafted, masterful novel illustrates how the perfect storm of teenage cruelty, racism, and tragedy can create an extremist * Booklist Starred Review *
Brilliantly channeling the minds of angst-filled teenagers with barely formed worldviews who seesaw between brash self-confidence and deflating insecurities . . . Khadivi has written an important, smart, timely novel that rivals such standouts as Karan Mahajan’s The Association of Small Bombs or Moshin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist * Library Journal Starred Review *
Laleh Khadivi is the author of the Kurdish Trilogy. Her first novel, The Age of Orphans, received the Whiting Award for Fiction, the Barnes and Nobles Discover New Writers Award and an Emory Fiction Fellowship, and was followed by the acclaimed The Walking. She has also worked as a director, producer and cinematographer of documentary films, and her debut, 900 Women, premiered at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. Khadivi lives in northern California and teaches at the University of San Francisco.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781408876039 |
| ISBN 10 | 1408876035 |
| Title | A Good Country |
| Author | Laleh Khadivi |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2018-06-28 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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