Yet she also tells a difficult story effortlessly, illuminating a moment in history through the prism of something universal' - Clare Allfree, Metrolife. Sofer's touch sometimes feels so weightless, you wonder if it can bear the brunt of her hefty subject. Dalia Sofer's debut has the potential to do the same. ''The Kite Runner' became a global best-seller not just because it removed the lid on a troubled country and exposed the human stories within. Technically accused of being an Israeli spy. In the wake of the Iranian Revolution, as the Ayatollah Khomeini’s Republic is first being established, gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested near his opulent Tehran home. 'The Septembers of Shiraz' is miraculously light in its touch, as beautiful and delicate as a book about suffering can be' - Clare Messud, 'Scotsman'. An Iranian Jew waits wrongly accused in prison while his family slowly crumbles in Tehran and New York. And as his daughter, in a childlike attempt to stop the wave of baseless arrests, engages in illicit activities, his son, sent to New York before the rise of the Ayatollahs, struggles to find happiness even as he realizes that his family may soon be forced to embark on a journey of incalculable danger. Read The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer for free on hoopla. About the Book Set in Tehran during the aftermath of the 1979 revolution, this understated, beautifully told literary debut follows the Amin family as they. As Isaac navigates the tedium and terrors of prison, forging tenuous trusts, his wife feverishly searches for him, suspecting, all the while, that their once-trusted housekeeper has turned on them and is now acting as an informer.

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