What we owe
Hashemzadeh Bonde, Golnaz, 1983-2019
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Tehran, 1978. Nahid and Masood, both 18, are young lovers and young revolutionaries, determined to overthrow the Shah's regime and help to bring about democracy. One night, Nahid allows her younger sister to come along to a huge demonstration. Violence breaks out. Nahid lets go of her sister's hand. Everything changes. As the revolution sours, and the loss becomes too much to bear, Nahid and Masood are forced to flee to Sweden, on borrowed money with forged passports. Tehran is no longer safe for them, and now they are expecting a baby; they need to get out before they lose everything. 30 years later, Nahid lies in a hospital bed replaying her life, raging at her carers, at her recent cancer diagnosis, at Masood, at her - now pregnant - daughter, and at her exile among people who while purporting to understand know nothing of what she has been through.
Main title:
What we owe / Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde ; translated by Elizabeth Clark Wessel.
Imprint:
London : Fleet, 2019.
Collation:
181 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Swedish.This translation originally published: 2018.
ISBN:
9780708898826 (pbk)
Dewey class:
FICTION
Language:
EnglishSwedish
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BRN:
2791452
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