Shida Bazyar

We don't exist in this world. Here we're neither Germans nor refugees; we aren't newsreaders or experts. We're some kind of joker in the pack, and they don't know if they can use us for anything. Kasih, Hani, and Saya have shared a deep friendship since school and the years they lived in the same public housing estate. Kasih and...

A captivating, polyphonic novel of one family's flight from and return to Iran. The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran begins in 1979. Behsad, a young communist revolutionary, fights with his friends for a new order after the Shah's expulsion. He tells of sparking hope, of clandestine political actions, and of how he finds the love of his life in the...