false 4906291 1 The story of a Kurdish boy forced to betray his people in service of the new Iranian nation, and the tragic consequences as he grows into manhood. Before following his father into battle, he had been like any other Kurdish boy: in love with his Maman, fascinated by birds and the rugged Zagros Mountains, dutiful to his stern and powerful Baba. But after he is orphaned in a massacre by the armies of Iran’s new shah, he is taken in by the very army that has killed his parents, renamed Reza Khourdi, and indoctrinated into the modern, seductive ways of the newly minted nation, careful to hide his Kurdish origins with every step. <I>The Age of Orphans </I>follows Reza through his meteoric rise in rank, his marriage to a proud Tehrani woman, and his eventual deployment, as a colonel, back to the Zagros Mountains and the ever-defiant Kurds. Here Reza is responsible for policing, and sometimes killing, his own people, and his carefully crafted persona begins to crack. Told with an evocative richness of language that recalls Michael Ondaatje or Anita Desai, the story of Reza Khourdi is that of the twentieth-century everyman, cast out from the clan in the name of nation, progress, and modernity, who cannot help but yearn for the impossible dreams of love, land, and home. 4971810 3 3 2009 The Age of Orphans: A Novel total:33|5:12|4:5|3:9|2:5|1:2| 33 119 98 16 5 3 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 14:18:40 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 15:47:17 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Mar 13 13:45:49 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 13:45:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed May 13 12:01:41 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 12:50:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Sep 24 12:40:09 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 12:57:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 09 09:15:30 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 09:25:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 16:26:45 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 16:31:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 08 08:57:15 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 09:00:34 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jun 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 11:36:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 11:37:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 20:28:03 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 20:31:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 19:48:13 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 19:52:08 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 19:05:11 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 19:07:16 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 13:13:09 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 10:20:58 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 06:18:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 17:26:06 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jul 09 08:07:06 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 08:19:25 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun May 17 13:38:26 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 08:01:52 -0700 2009
I know Laleh. She is smart, witty, inquisitive. She's a filmmaker as well as an author.

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I had to return this book to the library before I could finish it. I am not heartbroken.]]> 5 0 false false Thu Nov 19 09:45:44 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 09:45:44 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Thu Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 17:21:56 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 11:21:36 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Nov 03 16:59:57 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 16:59:57 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Oct 28 10:58:55 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 10:58:55 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4906291