And as his daughter, in a childlike attempt to stop the wave of baseless arrests, engages in illicit activities, his son, sent to New York before the rise of the Ayatollahs, struggles to find happiness even as he realizes that his family may soon be forced to embark on a journey of incalculable danger.A page-turning literary debut, The Septembers of Shiraz simmers with questions of identity, alienation, and love, not simply for a spouse or a child, but for all the intangible sights and smells of the place we call home. The Septembers of Shiraz (by Dalia Sofer) tells the story of a modern day Iranian family living in Tehran and dealing with the repercussions of a fathers. The Septembers of Shiraz, poignant once you’ve read this first novel by Dalia Sofer, is, on its own, a title at once overly poetic and misleading. Terrified by his disappear-ance, his family must reconcile a new world of cruelty and chaos with the collapse of everything they have known.As Isaac navigates the tedium and terrors of prison, forging tenuous trusts, his wife feverishly searches for him, suspecting, all the while, that their once-trusted housekeeper has turned on them and is now acting as an informer. In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. The Septembers of Shiraz: A Novel (P.S.) Paperback Apby Dalia Sofer (Author) 368 ratings 3.8 on Goodreads 7,768 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 16.00 48 Used from 1.43 11 New from 10.94 5 Collectible from 4. On a September day in 1981, gem trader Isaac Amin is accosted by Revolutionary Guards at his Tehran office and imprisoned for.
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