Dina Nayeri - reading

Dina Nayeri - reading.

THE US EMBASSY LITERATURE SERIES

Dina Nayeri will read from her novel A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea (Ein Teelöffel Land und Meer, mare)

Growing up in a small rice-farming village in 1980s Iran, 11-year-old Saba Hafezi and her twin sister Mahtab are captivated by America. They keep lists of English words and collect illegal Life magazines, television shows, and rock music. So when her mother and sister disappear, leaving Saba and her father alone in Iran, Saba is certain that they have moved to America without her. But her parents have taught her that all fate is written in the blood,? and that twins will live the same life, even if separated by land and sea. As she grows up in the warmth and community of her local village, falls in and out of love, and struggles with the limited possibilities in post-revolutionary Iran, Saba envisions that there is another way for her story to go. Somewhere, it must be that her sister is living the Western version of this life. And where Saba's story has all the grit and brutality of real life under the new Islamic regime, her sister's life gives her a freedom and control that Saba can only dream of.

Quelle: kulturkurier / Kulturclub.de