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Title What we owe / Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde ; translation by Elizabeth Clark Wessel
Imprint London : Fleet, 2018

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Descript 181 p. ; 24 cm
Note Tehran, 1978: Nahid and Masood, both eighteen, are young lovers and young revolutionaries, determined to overthrow the Shah's regime and help to bring about democracy. Their clandestine activities are dangerous, but with youth, passion and right on their side, they feel invincible. Then one night, Nahid allows her younger sister to come along to a huge demonstration. Violence breaks out. Nahid lets go of her sister's hand. Everything changes.As the revolution sours, and the loss becomes too much to bear, Nahid and Masood are forced to flee to Sweden, on borrowed money with forged passports. Tehran is no longer safe for them, and now they are expecting a baby; they need to get out before they lose everything.Thirty years later, Nahid lies in a hospital bed replaying her life, raging at her carers, at her recent cancer diagnosis, at Masood, at her - now pregnant - daughter, and at her exile among people who while purporting to understand know nothing of what she has been through
Translated from the Swedish
Subject Revolution (Iran : 1979)
1979
Government, Resistance to -- Fiction
Revolutionaries -- Fiction
Sisters -- Fiction
Life change events -- Fiction
Refugees -- Sweden -- Fiction
Cancer -- Patients -- Fiction
Mother and daughter -- Fiction
Swedish fiction -- Translations into English
Cancer -- Patients.
Government, Resistance to.
Life change events.
Refugees.
Revolutionaries.
Sisters.
Tehran (Iran) -- Fiction
Iran -- History -- Revolution, 1979 -- Fiction
Sweden -- Fiction
Iran
Iran -- Tehran
Sweden
Novels.
Fiction.
History.
Novels.
Classmark 839.73/8
ISBN/ISSN 070889884X
9780708898840
9780708898833 (pbk.)
0708898831 (pbk.)
9780708898819 (ePub ebook)
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