Date 25 August 2016
Pages 349
Format cm 14 x 21
Price € 22.00
EAN 9782867468346
Publisher Website www.lianalevi.fr

Disoriental

Publisher Liana Levi
A novel about family, politics, and rock'n'roll in yesterday's Iran and today's France.

Kimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten with her mother and sisters to join her father in exile in France. Now twenty-five, facing the future and the prospect of motherhood, Kimiâ is overwhelmed by a flood of her own memories and her ancestors' stories. In the waiting room of a Parisian fertility clinic, generations of flamboyant Sadrs return to her, including her formidable great-grandfather Montazemolmolk, with his harem of 52 wives, and her parents, Darius and Sara, stalwart opponents of Iran's ever regime.
Punk-rock aficionado Kimiâ is a Scheherazade of our time, a modern woman divided between family traditions and her own “disorientalization."

  • Sales in France 154,000 copies
  • Rights Sold Croatia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, USA, Turkey
  • Awards Prix Albertine 2019, Prix Première (RTBF) 2017, Prix de la Porte Dorée 2017, Prix du Style 2016, Meilleur premier roman LIRE 2016
  • As of: June 2021