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The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen
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Author: Shokoofeh Azar
Title: The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen
Binding: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 528
Release Date: 2025-06-10
Details: From International Booker Prize and National Book Award finalist Shokoofeh Azar, comes a stylistically audacious and emotionally powerful novel about one large, complicated family and a love affair lasting decades.
"A wildly ambitious novel about Iran's past, present, and future filled with longing and fury."-Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
Spanning fifty years in the history of modern Iran, this lush, layered story embraces politics and family, revolution and reconstruction, loss and love as it recounts the colorful destinies of twelve children who get lost one long-ago night inside a mysterious palace.
Azar's first novel, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (Europa Editions, 2020), was shortlisted for the Stella Prize for Fiction and the International Booker Prize; it was longlisted for the PEN America Award and the National Book Award for Translated Literature.
In Azar's new novel, each lost child's story unfolds against the backdrop of immense cultural and political transformation; lovers must survive war, revolution, and rigid social strictures to keep their love alive; family bonds are tested, especially those indissoluble connections between the living and the dead. The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen is also the moving story of one family's efforts to preserve the richness of Iranian culture in the face of Islamic hegemony following the 1979 revolution.
EAN: 9798889660972
Package Dimensions: Height: 9.25 inches, Length: 6.25 inches, Weight: 1.60055602212 pounds, Width: 1.75 inches
Languages: en
