Disoriental by Négar Djavadi (2016): A Review
Title : Disoriental Author : Négar Djavadi Publication Year : 2016 Rating : ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫 Pages : 346 Source : audiobook @storytel.tr Genre : literary fiction, historical fiction, queer Awards : shortlisted for the 2019 Albertine Prize and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation; won the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction; National Book Award Finalist. Following my plan to read one book each month either written by an Iranian author or about Iran, March’s choice was Disoriental . Disoriental traces four generations of an Iranian family from the Qajar dynasty up to the present day: those who start out at the top of the social hierarchy, then fall from power, become part of the opposition, are hunted by the regime they resist, and later by the very regime they helped bring to power in the hope of a new utopia—only to be forced into exile when everything goes wrong in ways they never imagined. Although the novel covers more than a century of Iranian history, that history fu...