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SUMMARY:Book Launch event for Zulaikha by Niloufar-Lily Soltan\, In Conversation with Nora Gold
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Zulaikha. Niloufar-Lily Soltan will read from Zulaikha and be in conversation with Nora Gold\, whose newest book (a flip book of novellas)\, released by Guernica Editions.  \n \nA collection that focuses on the life of an Iranian woman over several decades.  \n\n\n\nIn the winter of 2007\, Zulaikha is travelling from Amsterdam to Tehran when she is approached by Kia\, a family acquaintance she hasn’s seen for many years\, who is on the same flight. Kia’s father has passed away and she is flying home to attend his funeral. In a shocking twist\, Zulaikha suspects that Kia may have had information about her missing brother\, Hessam\, and their mutual friend\, Abbass\, who was murdered before Hessam’s disappearance during the Iran and Iraq War. \nWhen the flight is suddenly cancelled\, and Zulaikha is later taken into custody and questioned about her relationship with Kia by both the European and Iranian authorities\, who ultimately confiscate her passport\, a tense thriller unfolds revealing the impacts of war and the consequences for one young woman unknowingly caught in the crossfire of greed\, power\, and international politics. \nThis sweeping novel explores many timely topics including issues related to gender\, class\, race\, and interracial marriage. It also sheds light on the tumultuous history of Iran from a new perspective. The novel reveals a forty-year period of war and upheaval in the Middle East\, and specifically\, in Zulaikha’s home territory of Khuzestan\, which boasts the bulk of Iran’s oil reserves\, a place of intense tension between Iran and the U.S. still today.\n 
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/book-launch-event-for-zulaikha-by-niloufar-lily-soltan-in-conversation-with-nora-gold/
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