Full Description
Debut short-story collection in English from acclaimed fiction writer Ali Hosseini
The stories in Dare the Sea explore Iran's landscape, culture, and the undercurrent of change affecting its people—both in Iran and the United States. The stories in the first half of the collection are set in Iran in the time before and just after the Iranian revolution of 1979. Each tale discloses the obstacles rural Iranians lived with on a daily basis and the exigencies of survival: petty theft, corruption, drug trafficking, religion, and love. Stories in the second half take place in exile, where characters are seemingly dropped into American locales like the Midwest or Hawaii, taking in their situation with only the survival skills they've learned in their own land and enduring the hardships of being strangers in a new country.
Loosely interconnected by reappearing characters, the stories in Dare the Sea are strongly linked by the country of Iran, its landscape, its history, and its hold on its people.
Contents
Acknowledgments
PART ONE
City of Chaos
There's a Tale with the Wind
Land of Miracles
Rising Waters
Turning Bread to Stone
Black Mountain Pass
Shireen
Fast Friends
In Those Days
This Lame and Stubborn Mule
PART TWO
Traffic Lights
Chicle Un Cordoba
Koh-i-noor
When the Rain Stops
Smiling Pistachios
Conference of the Birds
Dare the Sea
NowRuz Gifts
Earth Angels
Magic Island
Departures
Day of Solitude
