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SUMMARY:TMR Book Club Discusses "A Nearby Country Called Love" with author Salar Abdoh
DESCRIPTION:RSVP here \nJoin the TMR Book Club on Wednesday\, April 24th at 7pm CET/ 1pm EST/ 6pm UK to discuss “A Nearby Country Called Love” online with the author\, Salar Abdoh. \nAbout the book: \nA sweeping\, propulsive novel about the families we are born into and the families we make for ourselves\, in which a man struggles to find his place in an Iran on the brink of combusting. \nAmid the alleyways of the Zamzam neighborhood of Tehran\, a woman lights herself on fire in a desperate act of defiance\, setting off a chain reaction of violence and protest. Haunted by the woman’s death\, Issa is forced to confront the contradictions of his own family history\, throughout which his late brother Hashem\, a prominent queer artist in Tehran’s underground\, defied their father\, a skilled martial artist bound to traditional notions of honor and masculinity. \nIssa soon finds himself thrown into a circle of people living on the margins of society\, negotiating a razor-like code of conduct that rewards loyalty and encourages aggression and intolerance in equal measure. As the city explodes around him\, Issa realizes that it is the little acts of kindness that matter most\, the everyday humanity of individuals finding love and doing right by one another. \nVibrant and evocative\, intimate and intelligent\, A Nearby Country Called Love is both a captivating window into contemporary Iran and a portrait of the parallel fates of a man and his country—a man who acknowledges the sullen and rumbling baggage of history but then chooses to step past its violent inheritance. Published by Viking. \n  \nAbout the author: \nSalar Abdoh was born in Iran and splits his time between Tehran and New York City. He is the author of the novels Tehran at Twilight\, The Poet Game\, Opium\, and Out of Mesopotamia and the editor of Tehran Noir. He teaches in the MFA program at the City College of New York. \nRSVP here
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