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You, the citizens of this country, with your income taxes and compulsory deductions and council taxes - but also your education, your intransigence, your critical minds and your spirit of solidarity and pride and culture and patriotism, your devotion to the Republic and democracy, you who toiled for centuries to achieve these mechanical staircases installed meters underground."ĭjavadi starts us at the top of the escalator, and then makes us take the stairs. His answer was, "Escalators are for them." By "them" he meant you, obviously. The first time I went down into a metro station with him, on April 21, 1981, I asked him why. "In Paris, my father, Darius Sadr, never took the escalator. She handed the book to me as she spoke like a gift. The cover is excellent, the title as well, and Megan said that it was a translation from French, new to the American book market.

I told her that for a few years I've been reading debut novels by women, and preferably a new translation to English. We were talking about what we're reading. Yet it is Kimiâ herself-punk-rock aficionado, storyteller extraordinaire, a Scheherazade of our time, and above all a modern woman divided between family traditions and her own “disorientalization”-who forms the heart of this bestselling and beloved novel.ĭisoriental.

In this high-spirited, kaleidoscopic story, key moments of Iranian history, politics, and culture punctuate stories of family drama and triumph. In the waiting room of a Parisian fertility clinic, generations of flamboyant Sadrs return to her, including her formidable great-grandfather Montazemolmolk, with his harem of fifty-two wives, and her parents, Darius and Sara, stalwart opponents of each regime that befalls them. Now twenty-five, with a new life and the prospect of a child, Kimiâ is inundated by her own memories and the stories of her ancestors, which reach her in unstoppable, uncontainable waves. Kimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France.

The story of a young girl and her family, at the core of an exploration of Iranian history.