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Deep in an Iranian suburb, made rich by the booming oil industry, Clarice Ayvazian lives a comfortable life surrounded by the gentle bickering of her children and her gossiping friends and relatives. Happy being at the heart of her family, she devotes herself to their every need.
But when an enigmatic Armenian family move in across the street, something begins to gnaw at Clarice’s contentment: a feeling that there may be more to life – and to her – than this. Dizzy with the sweltering heat and simmering emotions, Clarice begins to feel herself come alive to possibilities previously unimaginable.
Set in Iran prior to the Islamic revolution, Zoya Pirzad’s award-winning novel crafts an intimate portrait of family life – its joys and its compromises – and how we find a happiness that endures.
- Sales Rank: #1079877 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-05-01
- Released on: 2012-05-01
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
"A note-perfect portrait...by a wonderful writer." - Frank Huyler, author of Right of Thirst
"The sparked imagination for both characters and reader is beautiful, but it is truly the things Pirzad leaves unsaid that make this book so good." - Austin Chronicle
“A rising star of Iranian literature, Zoya Pirzad transcends the everyday with her luminous writing.”
Elle
"A grand, panoramic family saga... Pirzad writes with wit and precision, deftly evoking the daily routines and rhythms of a city on the cusp of revolutionary changes."
New Internationalist
About the Author
Zoya Pirzad is a renowned Iranian-Armenian writer and novelist. She has written two novels and three collections of short stories, all of which have enjoyed international success. Her most recent collection of stories, The Bitter Taste of Persimmon, won the prize for Best Foreign Book of 2009 in France. She grew up in Abadan, where this novel is set, and now lives in Tehran.
Franklin D. Lewis is Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is a specialist in Persian literature and author of Rumi: Past and Present, East and West, also published by Oneworld.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
at once universal abd a study of culture & place (4.5 stars)
By cheryl1213
This is recently released translation of a novel by an Iranian-Armenian author. It is set in Iran in 1962 and focuses on a town built around an oil company and an Armenian community with it's own social groups, religious institutions (notably, everyone has Friday off because it it the day of worship in the country but it is not the day of worship in the characters' religion), and schools. The main character is Clarisse, a wife and mother to a teenage son and younger twin girls. Her mother and sister (who is perpetually looking for a husband herself) are frequent, usually unannounced, visitors to her home. The book opens when the children bring home a new friend who has moved into a neighboring home with her father and grandmother. As Clarisse gets to know her neighbors and navigates her changing community (we see hints of a women's movement), she begins to question her life and her marriage, wondering for what seems to be the first time if she is happy and fulfilled.
I greatly enjoyed this book (advanced reader's copy won on Goodreads site). In many ways, the basic story of a woman questioning her life, a life she's just lived for many years as a wife and mother without really examining her own satisfaction, could be set anywhere. However, the culture definitely runs throughout and I enjoyed the glimpses into a different society. The Armenians in Iran are very much a subculture and they generally only interact within their own community. The community in the book is also very much built around the oil company, it is a more institutionalized version of the company towns we see in the U.S. with housing and transport built for workers and with different neighborhoods for workers and management (again, something seen in many U.S. towns). It isn't a major focal point, but there are hints of politics such as when Clarisse wanders into a speech about women's rights (she's drawn to it but also very uncomfortable) and her concerns that her husband's political interests might be dangerous.
Through a good portion of the book, it was a hinting at being a 5 star read for me. As it progressed, I got a bit frustrated with Clarisse and I felt like I couldn't really relate to her sudden discontent. I felt like she was a bit dramatic at times, almost acting like things were tragic. I don't want to spell out more detail since it might be spoiler-ish and think the disconnect may be due to cultural/temporal differences. Despite that issue, I very much enjoyed the book and give it 4.5...rounding down just b/c I'm stingy with putting 5. I enjoyed the writing voice, though I never know how much of that to attribute to a writer and how much a translator influenced a book that originated in another language.
FYI -- There is a useful appendix in the version I have that explains some elements such as public figures, cultural observations, and even foods that an American reader might not recognize. I found it helpful to actually read through this section all at once (stumbled upon it when I looked to see how many pages were in the novel, an odd habit of mine) and then consulted it a couple of times as I read.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Armenians in Iran - a domestic novel of middle class life 50 years ago
By Franklin Lewis
Zoya Pirzad came to prominence with the publication of Things We Left Unsaid ( چراغ ها را من خاموش می کنم literally: I'll Get the Lights), which won the prestigious Golshiri literary prize in 2002. She writes in Persian, the majority language of Iran, though she also knows Armenian, as well as English - and she has translated literary works from English into Persian (including Alice in Wonderland). As such, her writing is aware of international fiction and this story crosses over very well into other languages (which is not always the case for modern Persian fiction, often steeped in a particularly Iranian cultural context). The characters in this book are readily understandable and easy to identify with, and it has been translated to French, German and Turkish, as well as English.
Thing We Said Today lightly touches on political and economic problems and issues of Iran of the 1960s, where they relate naturally to the lives of the characters, whose mental life is the book's primary focus. Women and how they relate to their mothers, sisters, husbands, children and neighbors is a major concern - with all that attends: love, marriage, the family, bourgeois expectations, independent sense of self, careers for women, etc. We hear the stream of consciousness of a middle class Armenian-Iranian housewife who is gently waking to consciousness of her situation as a woman (this is taking place at roughly the same moment Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique was first published in the United States, though that book does not figure directly in Pirzad's novel). The novel takes place in 1962-1963, just before the "White Revolution" of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the former Shah of Iran, and about a decade after control of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company had been wrested from the British, and nationalized, becoming the National Iranian Oil Company. This was a major international crisis for the British, because the city of Abadan, where the novel is set, was one of the world's largest oil refineries, and Britain was taking the better part of its revenues.
Abadan, as a port and refinery town, was a very cosmopolitan city, with many foreign visitors and employees, and the novel lovingly recreates a physical sense of Abadan the place as it was a half-century ago, and its social classes and ethnicities. The central characters, most of them secular Armenian Christians, are not natives of Abadan. They are vividly drawn, and the reader genuinely comes to care for them - even the irritating ones. Though religion is not a particularly important force in their lives, they live, go to school and socialize largely among themselves, making for a rather insular community and a small town feel, despite the modern cosmopolitan nature of Abadan. Their identity as Iranians is also triangulated by their identity as Armenians, and a particularly moving passage comes when an elderly woman from Van recollects how the seemingly placid life of Armenians suddenly gave way to unthinkable tragedy in 1915. But this is not the main theme of Things We Left Unsaid - which must rather be the trajectory of the four or five romantic relationships which develop throughout the course of Pirzad's story. It is well written and engaging and a quick read.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Finely Drawn Portrait of Family Life
By Alex Soong
Things We Left Unsaid is a charming book in many ways. It paints with a fine brush, the minutiae of domestic life in an Armenian-Iranian family. The characters are entirely believable and so deftly fleshed out that readers feel they know, understand and care about them. The narrator is a self-sacrificing housewife who gives much and asks little for herself. As such, she feels somewhat empty at times although this subtext runs quietly and is never fully developed by the writer. Never missing the nuance of a glance, gesture or tone of voice, this narrator is equally undeluded in regard to her own internal world. The plot is hardly anything complex yet this is a novel that keeps one reading till the end. One closes the book feeling that not all that much happened between the pages after all -- no sex, no violence and nothing very dramatic or very nasty -- yet it felt like a privileged glimpse into some other lives and the conclusion that the gist of domesticity is pretty much the same anywhere in the world, at any period of time.
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