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Echoes from
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by Ava Homa |
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Fiction/Stories
Paperback ISBN: 9781894770644 -$19.95
Epub ISBN: 9781894770811 - $9.95
112 pages
Publication Date:
October 2010
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These haunting stories beautifully evoke the oppressive lives of
modern women in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Anis, a computer
programmer, is at the end of her rope, putting up with the
bullying criticism of a no-good, unemployed lout of a husband;
Azar is a young divorcee, and the only person she can talk to is
Reza; but she can see him only late at night when “they” are not
around; Sharmin has Down’s syndrome and hopelessly loves Azad;
he loves Kazhal, beautiful and blessed; but Kazhal is married
off and is divorced at twenty and now awaits a hopeless future .
. . For these and other characters the weight of traditional
attitudes, the harassment of the religious establishment make for a frustrating, confining, and
sometimes unlivable existence.
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"Ranging
across regions, ethnicities, genders, sexualities and political
dispositions, Homa’s characters give us a prismatic portrait of
Iran that resists both internal tyrannies and Western
demonization. Her style is elegantly spare, gem-solid. This is a
voice we all need to hear."
—Susan Holbrook,
author of Joy Is So
Exhausting
"Ava Homa
is Canada’s exquisite answer to Raymond Carver. Homa announces
new beginnings—less irony, more hope—and from a breathtakingly
multicultural and international perspective. Readers will
experience awe and beauty at the force
of Homa’s art to convey female Iranian protagonists wholeheartedly grasping their lives. A taut and subtle plain-spokenness
enlivens her writing, belying rich dramatic tensions that build
just beneath the surface—which will surprise readers and then
captivate them."
—Louis Cabri, author of The Mood Embosser
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Ava Homa was
teaching at a university in Iran when she decided to move to
Canada to study in an Ontario university. Currently she lives in
Toronto, where she continues teaching and writing.
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