If you loved A Thousand Splendid Suns, you'll sink into this spellbinding story of an Iranian girl who, separated from her mother and twin sister during the turmoil following the revolution, invents a rich, imaginative world in which they live on.
Dina Nayeri was born in Iran during the revolution and emigrated to Oklahoma at ten years old. She has a BA from Princeton and an MBA and Master of Education from Harvard. She is currently a Truman Capote Fellow and a Teaching Writing Fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. For more details go to www.dinanayeri.com
There's a kaleidoscopic quality to Dina Nayeri's prose, evoking the
beat of Eastern storytelling, while its cadences remain resolutely
American... The novel's message, however, is universal: we must do
all we can to control our own fates.
*Daily Mail*
Infused with the prose of nostalgia, revelling in the simplicity of
a rural culture that is gradually being eroded by ruthless
oppression. Skilled writers such as Nayeri, Khaled Hosseini (The
Kite Runner) and Hisham Matar (Anatomy of a Disappearance) play a
crucial role in making the personal political.
*The Age*
This ambitious novel set in northern Iran in the decade after the
1979 revolution contains not a teaspoon but a ton of history,
imagination, and longing.
*Publishers Weekly*
It's hard to believe A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea is Nayeri's first
novel as colorful phrases dance throughout this epic tale of grief
and love, memory and myth.
*Baltimore Times*
A gripping tale of female oppression.
*Australian Woman's Weekly*
There's a kaleidoscopic quality to Dina Nayeri's prose, evoking the
beat of Eastern storytelling, while its cadences remain resolutely
American... The novel's message, however, is universal: we must do
all we can to control our own fates. * Daily Mail *
Infused with the prose of nostalgia, revelling in the simplicity of
a rural culture that is gradually being eroded by ruthless
oppression. Skilled writers such as Nayeri, Khaled Hosseini (The
Kite Runner) and Hisham Matar (Anatomy of a
Disappearance) play a crucial role in making the personal
political. * The Age *
This ambitious novel set in northern Iran in the decade after the
1979 revolution contains not a teaspoon but a ton of history,
imagination, and longing. * Publishers Weekly *
It's hard to believe A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea is Nayeri's
first novel as colorful phrases dance throughout this epic tale of
grief and love, memory and myth. * Baltimore Times *
A gripping tale of female oppression. * Australian Woman's Weekly *
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