DALIA SOFER
Monday, June 9 at 7:30 p.m.

First published a year ago to wide acclaim, Dalia Sofer's The Septembers of Shiraz (HarperPerennial, new in paper) was one of the year's most acclaimed novels—and a debut at that. "The Septembers of Shiraz is a remarkable debut: the richly evocative, powerfully affecting depiction of a prosperous Jewish family in Tehran shortly after the revolution ... It's impossible to predict whether Sofer's book will become a classic, but it certainly stands a chance ... Sofer is particularly good at illuminating the sensual experiences of her characters—the way that, in extremis, memory and experience are resolved into colors, sounds, or scents ... The Septembers of Shiraz is miraculously light in its touch, as beautiful and delicate as a book about suffering can be." - Claire Messud, The New York Times Book Review.

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