City Lights Books citylights@onixsuite.com 20130519 eng

COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872862678 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100854650 02 0872862674 03 9780872862678 15 9780872862678 BC 1 A01 Rachlin, Nahid Nahid Rachlin Nahid Rachlin is the Iranian-American author of the novels <em>Foreigner</em>, <em>The Hearts Desire</em>, <em>Married to a Stranger</em> and the short story collection <em>Veils</em>. She teaches at the New School University and the Unterberg Poetry Center in New York.<a onclick="CSAction(new Array(/*CMP*/'C03C62351'));return CSClickReturn();" csclick="C03C62351" href="http://www.nahidrachlin.com/"></a> 01 eng 180 00 180 03 03 0 03 01 <P>The ten stories in Veils take place in present-day Iran or in the United States where Iranian immigrants face alien ways. Teheran's ancient Ghanat Abad Avenue, with its labyrinth of narrow streets and alleys, loosely links the stories into a single narrative: some residents leave as soon as they can, others can live nowhere else. The men and women in these spare and sensuous narratives who are caught in the confusing whirl of changing cultures sometimes meet with failure but more often transcend difficult circumstances to gain deeper self-knowledge.</P> 02 The ten stories in Veils take place in present-day Iran or in the United States where Iranian immigrants face alien ways. Teheran's ancient Ghanat Abad Avenue, with its labyrinth of narrow streets and alleys, loosely links the stories into a single... 08 “It is particularly exciting... to encounter Nahid Rachlin's Veils, a collection of short stories . . . suggestive in intriguing rather than exasperating ways.” LA Reader 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100854650/images/87286100854650L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100854650/images/87286100854650S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100854650 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 19920501 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 30 19920501 01 02 8.95 USD