A Good Country

Zusatztext Brilliantly channeling the minds of angst-filled teenagers with barely formed worldviews who seesaw between brash self-confidence and deflating insecurities . . . Khadivi has written an important! smart! timely novel that rivals such standouts as Karan Mahajan's The Association of Small Bombs or Moshin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist Informationen zum Autor Laleh Khadivi is the author of the Kurdish Trilogy. Her first novel! The Age of Orphans ! received the Whiting Award for Fiction! the Barnes and Nobles Discover New Writers Award and an Emory Fiction Fellowship! and was followed by the acclaimed The Walking . She has also worked as a director! producer and cinematographer of documentary films! and her debut! 900 Women ! premiered at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. Khadivi lives in northern California and teaches at the University of San Francisco. @Laleh Khadivi Klappentext California! 2010. Alireza Courdee! a 14-year-old! straight-A student takes his first hit of pot - and is transformed from the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants into a carefree stoner. He loses his virginity! starts surfing and lies to his father. Then a terror incident shocks the nation. As fears escalate! his friends begin to withdraw and Reza becomes increasingly isolated! an object of suspicion because of his name and skin colour. Now he can only relate to Arash! a fellow Muslim student! and beautiful Fatima! who starts wearing a hijab and going to the mosque. Little by little! Reza is drawn into a frightening new world. . . Zusammenfassung The powerful! moving story of a California teenager from an immigrant family who! finding himself in an increasingly hostile world! is turned from a carefree surfer's life towards a culture of fear and fanaticism Fourteen-year-old Alireza Courdee contains multitudes. He is a straight-A student and an affable stoner; the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants! and a Californian surf kid; Alireza! and just plain Rez. But when a terror incident shocks the nation - and then another! and another - Rez finds that the world has only one idea about the type of person he is; that his name and the colour of his skin make him an object of suspicion. But there are new friends to shine a light into Rez's isolated! angry existence - Arash! a fellow Muslim student! and the beautiful Fatima. Little by little! Rez is drawn into a new circle! a circle as troubling as it is consoling - and which has a grim and glorious mission in mind for him. Insightful! nuanced and timely! A Good Country is an unforgettable coming-of-age story which deftly captures a young man's alienation and search for identity in a flawed and violent world. ...

Vorwort
The powerful, moving story of a California teenager from an immigrant family who, finding himself in an increasingly hostile world, is turned from a carefree surfer's life towards a culture of fear and fanaticism

Autorentext
Laleh Khadivi was born in Esfahan, Iran, in 1977. In the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution her family fled, finally settling in Canada and then the United States. Khadivi received her MFA from Mills College and was a Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction at Emory University. In 2008 she received The Whiting Writers' Award. In 2009 she published her first novel The Age of Orphans. Laleh Khadivi lives in California.

Klappentext

California, 2010. Alireza Courdee, a 14-year-old, straight-A student takes his first hit of pot - and is transformed from the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants into a carefree stoner. He loses his virginity, starts surfing and lies to his father.

Then a terror incident shocks the nation. As fears escalate, his friends begin to withdraw and Reza becomes increasingly isolated, an object of suspicion because of his name and skin colour. Now he can only relate to Arash, a fellow Muslim student, and beautiful Fatima, who starts wearing a hijab and going to the mosque. Little by little, Reza is drawn into a frightening new world. . .

Zusammenfassung
___ 'Powerful, poignant, excellent' - Independent 'Important' - Guardian 'Stunning' - New York Times ___ The powerful, moving story of a California teenager from an immigrant family who, finding himself in an increasingly hostile world, is turned from a carefree surfer's life towards a culture of fear and fanaticism Fourteen-year-old Alireza Courdee contains multitudes. He is a straight-A student and an affable stoner; the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants, and a Californian surf kid; Alireza, and just plain Rez. But when a terror incident shocks the nation - and then another, and another - Rez finds that the world has only one idea about the type of person he is; that his name and the colour of his skin make him an object of suspicion. But there are new friends to shine a light into Rez's isolated, angry existence - Arash, a fellow Muslim student, and the beautiful Fatima. Little by little, Rez is drawn into a new circle, a circle as troubling as it is consoling - and which has a grim and glorious mission in mind for him. Insightful, nuanced and timely, A Good Country is an unforgettable coming-of-age story which deftly captures a young man's alienation and search for identity in a flawed and violent world. ___