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GCDS-9780872862760 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100279470 02 0872862763 03 9780872862760 15 9780872862760 BC 1 A01 Rachlin, Nahid Nahid Rachlin Nahid Rachlin is the Iranian-American author of the novels <em>Foreigner</em>, <em>The Heart&rsquo;s 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 232 01 <P>When Minou Hakini marries a man of her own choosing-an intellectual and a radical-and moves to Abadan, a thriving oil town near the Iraqi border, she imagines her life will be adventurous and liberating. Before long, however, she becomes aware of her husband's suspicious liaisons and dangerous activities. Her struggle to forge her own identity as a woman in contemporary Iran is charged with passion, anger, and finally a need to escape.</P> <P>Nahid Rachlin is an Iranian who lives in New York and teaches at Barnard College. She is the author of Foreigner and The Heart's Desire, both novels, and Veils, a collection of short stories.</P> 02 When Minou Hakini marries a man of her own choosing-an intellectual and a radical-and moves to Abadan, a thriving oil town near the Iraqi border, she imagines her life will be adventurous and liberating. Before long, however, she becomes aware of her... 08 "A clear statement and all of one piece- a direct cry from out of a particular feminine sensibility...her prose...(has) the clarity and spare sensuousness of Persian poetry or miniature painting." Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 08 "The ecstasies and disillusionments of first love are the stuff of great tragedies and cheap romances, but Nahid Rachlin has done something else with this familiar theme, and something more, though her style is elegantly simple . . . " The New York Times Book Review 04 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100279470/images/87286100279470L.gif 07 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100279470/images/87286100279470S.gif http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100279470 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 19930501 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 30 19930501 01 02 12.95 USD