The Place of Stones by Ali Hosseini

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This is Ali Hosseini's first novel. In it, he paints a vivid portrait of Sangriz, a village in the southern part of Iran where life has been disrupted by industrialization and the Iranian Revolution of 1979. In masterfully crafted prose that never sinks into sentimentality, The Place of Stones illuminates how a lost past continues to shape the present.

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The Place of Stones by Ali Hosseini

This is Ali Hosseini's first novel. In it, he paints a vivid portrait of Sangriz, a village in the southern part of Iran where life has been disrupted by industrialization and the Iranian Revolution of 1979. In masterfully crafted prose that never sinks into sentimentality, The Place of Stones illuminates how a lost past continues to shape the present.
Ali Hosseini is the author of the novel The Lemon Grove (Northwestern, 2012). The Place of Stones (Sangriz) and two short-story collections were published in Iran, and his short fiction has appeared in Persian in the United States in PAR Monthly and Persian Book Review. His work in English has been published in Epoch, StoryQuarterly, Guernica, Tweed's, Fiction International, American Letters & Commentary, and elsewhere. He lives in the Boston area.
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ISBN 13 9780810135758
ISBN 10 0810135752
Title The Place of Stones
Author Ali Hosseini
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Northwestern University Press
Year published 2017-09-30
Number of pages 216
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