基本信息出版社：Tarcher
页码：293 页
出版日期：2007年12月
ISBN：1585426237
International Standard Book Number：1585426237
条形码：9781585426232
EAN：9781585426232
装帧：Perfect Paperback
正文语种：英语

内容简介 For many years, heartache prevented Nahid Rachlin from turning her sharp novelist's eye inward: to tell the story of how her own life diverged from that of her closest confidante and beloved sister, Pari. Growing up in Iran, both refused to accept traditional Muslim mores, and dreamed of careers in literature and on the stage. Their lives changed abruptly when Pari was coerced by their father into marrying a wealthy and cruel suitor. Nahid narrowly avoided a similar fate, and instead negotiated with him to pursue her studies in America.

When Nahid received the unsettling and mysterious news that Pari had died after falling down a light of stairs, she traveled back to Iran-now under the Islamic regime-to find out what happened to her truest friend, confront her past, and evaluate what the future holds for the heartbroken in a tale of crushing sorrow, sisterhood, and ultimately, hope.
作者简介 Nahid Rachlin is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Jumping over Fire, Foreigner, Married to a Stranger, and The Heart's Desire, as well as a collection of short stories, Veils. Currently an associate fellow at Yale, Rachlin teaches at The New School and Unterberg Poetry Center in New York.