Rachlin has spent her career writing about hidden Iran - the combustible political passions underlying everyday life of ordinary Iranians. She turns her sharp novelist's eye on her own remarkable life. In a story of ambition, oppression, hope, heartache and sisterhood, this book traces Rachlin's coming of age in Iran. Rachlin is the author of Married to a Stranger - Book Passage
Nahid Rachlin, born in Iran, came to the United States to attend college and stayed. Among her publications are a memoir, Persian Girls (Fall 2006); four novels, Jumping Over Fire, Foreigner, Married To A Stranger and The Heart's Desire; and a collection of short stories, Veils.
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Nahid Rachlin
Nahid Rachlin, born in Iran, came to the United States to attend college and stayed. Among her publications are a memoir, Persian Girls, fall 2006, four novels, Jumping Over Fire, Foreigner, Married To A Stranger, The Heart's Desire, and a collection of short stories, Veils. All her published books are currently in print in paperback editions and are available at chain stores as well as independent ones. They are also widely used in college courses.
Her individual short stories have appeared in more than fifty magazines, including The Virginia Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Redbook, Shenandoah, New Letters. Her essays have been published in Natural History Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series and in an anthology, How I Learned to Cook and other writings On Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships, Penguin. She has written reviews for the New York Times and Newsday.
Historical name for a region roughly coterminous with modern Iran. The term was used for centuries, chiefly in the West, and originally described a region of southern Iran formerly known as Persis or Parsa. Parsa was the name of an Indo-European nomadic people who migrated into the area c. 1000 BC; the use of the name was gradually extended by the ancient Greeks and other Western peoples to apply to the whole Iranian plateau. The people of Iran have always called their country Iran, and in 1935 the government requested that the name Iran be used instead of Persia.