Hidden voice

Title: Hidden Voice

Writer: Parinoush Saniee

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789026334283

Condition: Good

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Description:
Moving novel about family ties, Islamic rules and life under a strict regime
A big party is thrown for Shahaab's twentieth birthday. Family and friends are gathered, but he flees upstairs to his room. There he thinks about the people around him: the neighborhood kids who bullied him, his father with whom he had a difficult relationship, his cousin with whom he had to walk so she could meet her boyfriend, and his mother who always protected him. Everyone considers him a silly child because he didn't speak until he was seven: no one realizes that silence was his way of protesting. In the end, it is his grandmother's love and understanding that give Shahaab the courage to break the silence.
'Hidden Voice' is a heartbreaking novel by a controversial bestselling author in Iran about a childhood in the Iran of the ayatollahs, with the permanent threat of the moral police and the revolutionary committees in the background.
'A beautiful novel in which Parinoush Saniee sketches the social structure of her country Iran, and in which she portrays the lives of women through the problematic youth of a boy. Strong dialogues and a main character as a symbol for the hope for a better world.' - La Repubblica