![]() “Now in its third year, the prize received more votes than any other year, a testament to the growing appreciation and need for international literature in the United States.”Įuropa Editions was fêted tonight at a celebration at Albertine, the acclaimed bookshop of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York City. ![]() “By exploring the nuances between the intersection of eastern and western cultures in Disoriental, Négar Djavadi sheds light on one of the many facets of French culture” said Benedicte de Montlaur, cultural counselor of the French Embassy. Throughout the novel, moments of Iranian history, politics, and culture punctuate stories of family drama and triumph. While alone amid couples, family narratives and personal recollections mix as her thoughts wander from her grandmother’s birth in a late 19th-century harem in northern Iran through her childhood in Tehran to her present incarnation as a 25-year-old French-Iranian punk fan. ![]()
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