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Sanam Mahloudji was born in Tehran and left during the Islamic Revolution. She is the recipient of the Pushcart Prize and was nominated for a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, The Idaho Review, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. Mahloudji was raised in Los Angeles and now lives in London with her husband and two children. The Persians is her debut novel.
“Mahloudji writes with a wisdom and confidence rarely seen in a debut, and her sharp observations are humorous and poignant…[T]his is more than a tale of Middle East meets west. Mahloudji is exploring where identity comes from… Multigenerational stories of family anguish and upheaval remain as popular as ever, from Abraham Verghese’s beautiful The Covenant of Water, to the quiet excellence of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko, and Elif Shafak’s stunning exploration of generational trauma, The Island of Missing Trees. THE PERSIANS earns a place alongside these heavyweights. It is as funny as it is moving, as perceptive as it is pithy.” —The Guardian
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