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Author Abdoh, Salar, author.

Title A nearby country called love / Salar Abdoh.

Publication Info. [New York] : Viking, [2023]
©2023

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - New Materials  F ABDOH, S.    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult New Materials  F ABDOH SALAR    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - New Materials  F ABDOH    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult New Materials  FIC ABDO    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - New Materials  ABDOH, SALAR    DUE 04-13-24
 New Britain, Main Library - New Materials  FIC ABDOH, S    DUE 04-15-24
 Simsbury Public Library - New Materials  NEW F ABDOH, SALAR    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - New Books  NEW FIC ABDOH    On Holdshelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult New Materials  F-ABDOH    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Wilson Branch - New Materials  F-ABDOH    Check Shelf
Description 246 pages ; 22 cm
Summary "A sweeping, propulsive novel about the families we are born into and the families we make for ourselves, in which two brothers struggle to find their place in an Iran on the brink of combusting Amid the alleyways of the Zamzam neighborhood of Tehran, a woman lights herself on fire in a desperate act of defiance, setting off a chain reaction of violence and protest. Haunted by the woman's death, Issa is forced to confront the contradictions within his own family as his brother Hashem, a prominent queer artist in Tehran's underground, defies their father, a skilled martial artist bound to traditional notions of honor and masculinity. Issa soon finds himself thrown into a circle of people living on the margins of a society at the brink of combusting, negotiating a razor-like code of conduct that rewards loyalty and encourages aggression and intolerance in equal measure. As the city explodes around him, Issa realizes that it is the little acts of kindness that matter most, the everyday humanity of individuals finding love and doing right by one another. Vibrant and evocative, intimate and intelligent, A Nearby Country Called Love is both a captivating window into contemporary Iran and a portrait of the parallel fates of a man and his country-a man who acknowledges the sullen and rumbling baggage of history but then chooses to step past its violent inheritance"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Families -- Iran -- Fiction.
Iranians -- Fiction.
Iran -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Iranians. (OCoLC)fst00978818
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
Iran. (OCoLC)fst01204889
FICTION / Family Life / General.
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
Novels.
Other Form: Online version: Abdoh, Salar. Nearby country called love : a novel New York : Viking, [2023] 9780593653913 (DLC) 2023015909
ISBN 9780593653906 (hardcover)
0593653904 (hardcover)
9780593653913 (ebook)
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