“ The Septembers of Shiraz is limpidly beautiful: grave, ironic, detached. Instead, the book is about how people, in any country, live mostly without thinking about the political implications of their choices, and how they are taken by surprise when revolution or war crashes in.” - Tara Bahrampour, The Washington Post These things exist, but they are part of a panoply of strangeness wrought upon everyone regardless of religion, gender or class. It does not exoticize the Middle East or focus unduly on tempting targets such as women being forced to cover themselves or the persecution of Jews. “ The Septembers of Shiraz rises above being an ethnic novel about an intriguing place. In this fickle literary world, it's impossible to predict whether Sofer's novel will become a classic, but it certainly stands a chance.” - Claire Messud, The New York Times The Septembers of Shiraz is a remarkable debut: the richly evocative, powerfully affecting depiction of a prosperous Jewish family in Tehran shortly after the revolution.
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