LEADER 00000cam 2200781M 4500 001 ocn994987812 003 OCoLC 008 170727s2018 xx 000 0 eng d 020 070889884X 020 9780708898840 020 9780708898833|q(pbk.) 020 0708898831|q(pbk.) 020 |z9780708898819 (ePub ebook) 041 1 eng|hswe 082 04 839.73/8|223 092 0 Roman|bengelska 100 1 Hashemzadeh Bonde, Golnaz,|d1983- 245 10 What we owe /|cGolnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde ; translation by Elizabeth Clark Wessel 264 London :|bFleet,|c2018 300 181 p. ;|c24 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 520 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 546 Translated from the Swedish 611 27 Revolution (Iran : 1979)|2fast 648 7 1979|2fast 650 0 Government, Resistance to|vFiction 650 0 Revolutionaries|vFiction 650 0 Sisters|vFiction 650 0 Life change events|vFiction 650 0 Refugees|zSweden|vFiction 650 0 Cancer|xPatients|vFiction 650 0 Mother and daughter|vFiction 650 4 Swedish fiction|vTranslations into English 650 7 Cancer|xPatients.|2fast 650 7 Government, Resistance to.|2fast 650 7 Life change events.|2fast 650 7 Refugees.|2fast 650 7 Revolutionaries.|2fast 650 7 Sisters.|2fast 651 0 Tehran (Iran)|xFiction 651 0 Iran|xHistory|yRevolution, 1979|vFiction 651 0 Sweden|vFiction 651 7 Iran 651 7 Iran|zTehran 651 7 Sweden 655 7 Novels.|2lcgft 655 7 Fiction.|2fast 655 7 History.|2fast 655 7 Novels.|2fast 776 08 |iebook version :|z9780708898819 907 00 190610
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