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International Booker Shortlist 2026 | Frankie recommends...The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran - Shida Bazyar, translated by Ruth Martin
International Booker Shortlist 2026 | Frankie recommends...The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran - Shida Bazyar, translated by Ruth Martin
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Frankie says... A beautiful and expansive digestion of the Iranian Revolution, discussing just how revolution runs into all the domestic and mundane cracks of Iranian life, lineage and history. A singular voice that takes a minute to get invested in but give it your all - it really is a rich embroidery of a family's inheritance of revolution, disruption and political violence. Bazyar's characters are so life like, inspire such empathy and celebrate searching for normality and recognition in a world plagued by chaos.
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A captivating, polyphonic novel of one family’s flight from and return to Iran.
1979. Behsad, 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 Behsad.
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.
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.
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