“A story of slowly-building self-liberation and resilience. . . . Our conversations around this book are going to be meaningful, engaging and urgently necessary.” —Roxane GayThe unforgettable, haunting story of a young woman’s perilous fight for freedom and justice for her brother, the first novel published in English by a female Kurdish writerSet primarily in Iran, this extraordinary debut novel weaves 50 years of modern Kurdish history th...

The unforgettable, haunting story of a young woman’s perilous fight for freedom and justice for her brother—the first novel published in English by a female Kurdish writerSet in Iran, this extraordinary debut novel takes listeners into the everyday lives of the Kurds. Leila dreams of making films to bring the suppressed stories of her people onto the global stage, but obstacles keep piling up. Leila’s younger brother Chia, influenced by their father’s past torture,...

ΤΟ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΈνα από τα πέντε σημαντικότερα βιβλία της χρονιάςThe IndependentΈνα βιβλίο που πρέπει οπωσδήποτε να διαβάσετεNow MagazineΈνα από τα καλύτερα αναγνώσματα της χρονιάςReader’s DigestΣε έναν τόπο όπου τα όνειρα θάβονται πριν προλάβουν να ανθίσουν, η Λεϊλά μεγαλώνει μαθαίνοντας τι σημαίνει να είσαι γυναίκα και Κούρδισσα στο Ιράν. Η ζωή της σημαδεύεται από απώλειες, βία και σιωπή, αλλά και από την πεισματική ανάγκη να μην ξεχάσει, ...

These haunting stories beautifully evoke the oppressive lives of modern women in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Anis, a computer programmer, is at the end of her rope, putting up with the bullying criticism of a no-good, unemployed lout of a husband; Azar is a young divorcee, and the only person she can talk to is Reza; but she can see him only late at night when “they” are not around; Sharmin has Down’s syndrome and hopelessly loves Azad; he loves Kazhal, beautiful and blessed; but Kazhal ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Σε έναν τόπο όπου τα όνειρα θάβονται πριν προλάβουν να ανθίσουν, η Λεϊλά μεγαλώνει μαθαίνοντας τι σημαίνει να είσαι γυναίκα και Κούρδισσα στο Ιράν. Η ζωή της σημαδεύεται από απώλειες, βία και σιωπή, αλλά και από την πεισματική ανάγκη να μην ξεχάσει, να μην παραδοθεί!Όταν ο αγαπημένος της αδελφός εξαφανίζεται, η Λεϊλά αρνείται να αποδεχτεί τη μοίρα που της επιβάλλεται. Αναζητά διέξοδο, αλλά έρχεται αντιμέτωπη με τα όρια της ελευθ...

Freedom, truth, and justice are taken for granted in some countries. In others, they are aspirational. And yet in others, they are deemed justification for persecution, punishment, and silence.Through first-person essays and short stories, the contributors to The Uncaged Voice share their brutal yet heart-rending tales of fleeing the oppressive regimes of their homelands, where freedom of expression and the press is an ideal, not a reality, and where totalitarian forces at...

Winner of a PEN Translates Award 2021Kurdistan + 100 poses a question to contemporary Kurdish writers: Might the Kurds one day have a country to call their own? With 13 stories all set in the year 2046 – exactly a century after the first glimmer of Kurdish independence, the short-lived Republic of Mahabad – this book offers a space for new expressions and new possibilities in the ongoing struggle for self-determination.Throughout the 20th century, and so far in the 21st, th...

A settlement worker recalls being a child soldier in Sudan; a woman from Trinidad applies to over a hundred jobs; and a teacher from Afghanistan grapples with what it means to be a migrant in a colonized land.In Geographies of the Heart, eighteen newcomers to Canada tell their own stories, in their own voices. These accounts push back against misconceptions about immigration and immigrants by revealing that the paths into Canada are as diverse as the people who journeyed t...