![]() ![]() He snatches up the child and takes her home, naming her Aria-the first step on an unlikely path from deprivation to privilege. One night, an illiterate army driver hears the pitiful cry of a baby abandoned in an alley and menaced by ravenous wild dogs. ![]() The government is unpopular and corrupt and under foreign sway. It is the 1950s in a restless Iran, a country rich in oil but deeply divided by class and religion. SHORTLISTED FOR THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARDĪn extraordinary, cinematic saga of rags to riches to revolution that follows an orphan girl coming of age in Iran at a time of dramatic upheaval SHORTLISTED FOR THE ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE Publisher : Vintage Canada (June 22 2021) ![]()
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