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Shida Bazyar - Nights Are Quiet in Tehran, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Nights Are Quiet in Tehran

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026

Av Shida Bazyar

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026A captivating, polyphonic novel of one family’s flight from and return to Iran.1979. Behzad, a young communist revolutionary, fights with his friends for a new order after the Shah’s expulsion. He tells of sparking hope, of clandestine political actions, and of how he finds the love of his life in the courageous, intelligent Nahid.1989. Nahid lives her new life in West Germany with Behzad. With their young children, they spend hour after hour in front of the radio, hoping for news from others who went into hiding after the mullahs came to power.1999. Laleh returns to Iran with her mother, Nahid. Between beauty rituals and family secrets, she gets to know a Tehran that hardly matches her childhood memories.2009. Laleh’s brother Mo is more concerned with a friend’s heartbreak than with student demonstrations in Germany. But then the Green Revolution breaks out in Iran and turns the world upside down …A topical, moving novel about revolution, oppression, resistance, and the absolute desire for freedom.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-06-19
  • Mått: 190 x 20 x 120 mm
  • Vikt: 220 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 272
  • Förlag: Scribe Publications
  • ISBN: 9781917189095
  • Översättare: Ruth Martin
  • Utmärkelser: Short-listed for The International Booker Prize 2026 (UK)
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Shida Bazyar, born in 1988, studied writing in Hildesheim, and, in addition to writing, worked in youth education for many years. She is the author of The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran — which has won the Blogger Literary Award, Ulla Hahn Prize, and Uwe Johnson Prize, among others, and has been translated into Dutch, Farsi, French, and Turkish — and Sisters in Arms.Ruth Martin studied English literature before gaining a PhD in German. She has been translating fiction and nonfiction books since 2010, by authors ranging from Joseph Roth to Angela Merkel. Together with Charlotte Collins, she won the 2020 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, for Nino Haratischwili’s epic novel The Eighth Life. Her translation of Shida Bazyar’s The Nights are Quiet in Tehran was shortlisted for the 2026 International Booker Prize. Ruth has taught at the University of Kent and the Bristol Translates summer school, and is currently a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge.

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‘Through cycles of exile and return, we follow an Iranian family across four decades — and learn what it means to always live in hope. The pages … pulse with solidarities and betrayal, with heartache and humour.’

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