My bird [electronic resource] / Fariba Vafi ; translated from the Persian by Mahnaz Kousha and Nasrin Jewell ; with an afterword by Farzaneh Milani.

By:

Vafī, Farībā

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Persian Series: Middle East literature in translationPublication details: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2009.Edition: 1st English language edDescription: 1 online resource (150 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780815651413
0815651414

Uniform titles:

Parandah-'i man. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: My bird.DDC classification:

891/.5534 22

LOC classification:

PK6561.V25 P3713 2009eb

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EBSCOhost

Summary: In this moving story of one woman's attempt to adapt to the complexity of life in modern Iran, Fariba Vafi reflects on the exigencies of marriage and motherhood. The narrator, a young mother and housewife living in a low income neighborhood in Tehran, dwells upon her husband Amir's desire to immigrate to Canada. His lifestyle underscores her own sense of inertia. When he finally slips away, the young woman is forced to raise the children alone and to care for her ailing mother.

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In this moving story of one woman's attempt to adapt to the complexity of life in modern Iran, Fariba Vafi reflects on the exigencies of marriage and motherhood. The narrator, a young mother and housewife living in a low income neighborhood in Tehran, dwells upon her husband Amir's desire to immigrate to Canada. His lifestyle underscores her own sense of inertia. When he finally slips away, the young woman is forced to raise the children alone and to care for her ailing mother.

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