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Title
The Last Days of Café Leila : a Novel.
Author
Bijan, Donia.
ISBN
9781616207120 (electronic bk.)
1616207124 (electronic bk.)
9781616205850
1616205857
1616207124 (electronic bk.)
9781616205850
1616205857
Imprint
New York : Algonquin Books, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (305 pages)
Call Number
PS3602.I368
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.6
Summary
"A glorious treat awaits you at the literary table of Donia Bijan."--Adriana Trigiani Set against the backdrop of Iran's rich, turbulent history, this exquisite debut novel is a powerful story of food, family, and a bittersweet homecoming. When we first meet Noor, she is living in San Francisco, missing her beloved father, Zod, in Iran. Now, dragging her stubborn teenage daughter, Lily, with her, she returns to Tehran and to Cafe Leila, the restaurant her family has been running for three generations. Iran may have changed, but Cafe Leila, still run by Zod, has stayed blessedly the same-it is a refuge of laughter and solace for its makeshift family of staff and regulars. As Noor revisits her Persian childhood, she must rethink who she is-a mother, a daughter, a woman estranged from her marriage and from her life in California. And together, she and Lily get swept up in the beauty and brutality of Tehran. Bijan's vivid, layered story, at once tender and elegant, funny and sad, weaves together the complexities of history, domesticity, and loyalty and, best of all, transports readers to another culture, another time, and another emotional landscape.
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Table of Contents
Cover; Also by Donia Bijan; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Prologue; Part One; One; Two; Three; Four; Five; Six; Seven; Part Two; Eight; Nine; Ten; Eleven; Twelve; Thirteen; Part Three; Fourteen; Fifteen; Sixteen; Seventeen; Eighteen; Part Four; Nineteen; Twenty; Twenty-One; Twenty-Two; Twenty-Three; Twenty-Four; Twenty-Five; Twenty-Six; Twenty-Seven; Twenty-Eight; Twenty-Nine; Thirty; Epilogue; Acknowledgments.