Dalia Sofer
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The Septembers of Shiraz is Dalia Sofer's first novel. She was born in 1972 in Tehran, Iran and fled at the age of ten to the United States with her family. She received her MFA in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence College in 2002 and has been a resident at Yaddo. She currently resides in New York City.
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The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer avg rating 3.75 — 1,258 ratings — published 2007 8 editions |
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O Último Setembro em Teerão by Dalia Sofer avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2009 |
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Septembre à Shiraz by Dalia Sofer, Sylvie Schneiter avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings |
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Escaping the Holocaust: Illegal Immigration to the Land of Israel, 1939-1944 by Dalia Sofer avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1988 2 editions |
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Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia by Dalia Sofer avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2007 |
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"If something must be said, it will say itself. The writer's task is to listen."
— Dalia Sofer (The Septembers of Shiraz)
— Dalia Sofer (The Septembers of Shiraz)
"He sees his world in black and white: Filthy snow, a hollow sky, the gray cement of the walls - water stains, like giant ink spills, eating into them - and his own skin, an ashy patina enveloping his body. Even the wounds on his feet, hardened and crusted, have lost their red. He has come to think of colour as something fantastic that exists only in his mind - the red of a tomato sliced and salted at the lunch table, the deep blue of a lapis lazuli on Farnaz's finger, the honey hue of his daughter's hair in the sun."
— Dalia Sofer (The Septembers of Shiraz)
— Dalia Sofer (The Septembers of Shiraz)
"New York loves expanse. It grows upward and spreads its tentacles outward, the island spilling into adjoining lands through its many bridges and tunnels. A person given to idleness, as Parvis has come to think of himself, must move about for the sake of moving, if only to fit into the general scheme of things - an electron obeying the current. Tantamount to movement, he has come to realize, is self-reliance, a fact reflected in the language: "Take care," a friend may say to another as the two part. In his old life the same two friends would have said to one another, khodahfez - "may God protect you.""
— Dalia Sofer (The Septembers of Shiraz)
— Dalia Sofer (The Septembers of Shiraz)
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