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SUMMARY:Ali Araghi in conversation with Laleh Khadivi
DESCRIPTION:Ali Araghi in conversation with Laleh Khadivi \ncelebrating Ali Araghi’s new novel \nThe Immortals of Tehran \npublished by Melville House \n——— \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Crowdcast platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Crowdcast before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Crowdcast. \n——— \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n(Re-visit this link) in the near future to make reservations \n———- \nBooks for this event may be purchased at these links : \n(To be posted) \n———– \n\nAs a child living in his family’s apple orchard\, Ahmad Torkash-Vand treasures his great-great-great-great grandfather’s every mesmerizing word. On the day of his father’s death\, Ahmad listens closely as the seemingly immortal elder tells him the tale of a centuries-old family curse . . . and the boy’s own fated role in the story. \nAhmad grows up to suspect that something must be interfering with his family\, as he struggles to hold them together through decades of famine\, loss\, and political turmoil in Iran. As the world transforms around him\, each turn of Ahmad’s life is a surprise: from street brawler\, to father of two unusually gifted daughters; from radical poet\, to politician with a target on his back. These lives\, and the many unforgettable stories alongside his\, converge and catch fire at the center of the Revolution. \nExploring the brutality of history while conjuring the astonishment of magical realism\, The Immortals of Tehran is a novel about the incantatory power of words and the revolutionary sparks of love\, family\, and poetry—set against the indifferent\, relentless march of time. \nAli Araghi is an Iranian writer and translator. He earned his MA in Ancient Cultures and Languages at the University of Tehran and has translated Samuel Beckett into Persian. After completing his MFA from the University of Notre Dame\, he is currently working on his PhD in Comparative Literature\, International Writers Track\, at Washington University. He won the 2017 Prairie Schooner Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing and has published stories and translations in Prairie Schooner\, The Fifth Wednesday Journal\, Asymptote\, and Hayden’s Ferry Review\, among others. He lives in St. Louis. \nLaleh Khadivi was born in Esfahan\, Iran\, in 1977. In the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution her family fled\, finally settling in Canada and then the United States. Khadivi received her MFA from Mills College and was a Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction at Emory University. In 2008 she received The Whiting Writers’ Award. In 2009 she published her first novel The Age of Orphans and in 2017 her second titled A Good Country.
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