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Title Statement | Prophetess: a novel / Baharan Baniahmadi. |
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Author | Baniahmadi, Baharan, 1984- |
Publication | ©2022Montreal: Esplanade Books,2022. |
Extent of Item | 197 pages |
ISBN | 9781550655957 (pbk.) 1550655957 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 4379776 |
Summary | "An unflinching allegorical novel that explores trauma, womens rights, and religious tradition. In the slums of Tehran, seven-year-old Sara witnesses the horrific murder of her sister Setayesh, an event leaves her in shock and unable to speak. As the neighbourhood frantically searches for the missing girl, Sara is locked inside herself, unable to tell her parents or police all she knows. Over time, the mute Sara develops a strange allergic reaction, in which hair covers her face every time a man approaches her. One day in school, when an imam gets too close, she faints. After Sara reawakens, classmates show her video of her speaking freely and eloquently while unconscious in Polish. These are only the first of many unexpected developments in Saras life, as she grapples with how to live with her sisters memory in a world that abuses women from a very early age"--Publisher. |
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By Topic | Psychic trauma--Fiction |
Abused women--Fiction | |
Murder--Fiction | |
Women's rights--Fiction--Iran | |
By Genre | Feminist fiction |