Trans(re)Lating House One
Poupeh Missaghi$15.26
$17.95
In the aftermath of Iran's 2009 election, a woman undertakes a search for the statues disappearing from Tehran's public spaces. A chance meeting and a confidential dossier lead her to discover she's looking for the wrong bodies. The space between fiction and reality narrows, and, as she circles the city's points of connection--teahouses, buses, galleries, hookah bars--her many questions are distilled into one: How do we translate loss into language?
Melding several worlds, perspectives, and narrative styles, trans(re)lating house one translates the various realities of Tehran and its inhabitants into the realm of art, helping us remember them anew.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 02/04/2020
ISBN: 9781566895651
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.90d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2019 pg. 96
Publishers Weekly 12/23/2019