Roya Hakakian
Författare till Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
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Verk av Roya Hakakian
For the Sake of Water (Poems in Persian) 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes: Uncensored Iranian Voices (2006) — Bidragsgivare — 105 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1966
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- Iran (birth)
- Bostadsorter
- Connecticut, USA
- Organisationer
- Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Guggenheim Fellowship (2008)
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A Beginner's Guide to America: For the Immigrant and… av Roya Hakakian
Interesting personal narrative for the first two thirds.
I really wanted to like A Beginner's Guide to America. The idea is certainly a winner - a book about the experience of a recent immigrant to America, written by a recent immigrant in the form of a guidebook.
Unfortunately, I just didn't connect with this book.
Perhaps it was because it was told in the 2nd person. "You" came to America with this or that expectation, after "you" suffered this or that experience in your homeland. In small quantities 2nd person works, but when an author writes a whole book that way there is a risk that your readers may not connect with your "you".
Maybe it's the way the author put the material together. Hakakian took her own immigrant experience, and blended it in with the experiences of other recent immigrants she interviewed into a single thread. The problem is not all the experiences blend together and without any attachment to real people it was harder to connect.
Don't get me wrong - there were parts of the book I did connect with. But overall I can't really recommend this one. Two stars ⭐⭐.… (mer)
Unfortunately, I just didn't connect with this book.
Perhaps it was because it was told in the 2nd person. "You" came to America with this or that expectation, after "you" suffered this or that experience in your homeland. In small quantities 2nd person works, but when an author writes a whole book that way there is a risk that your readers may not connect with your "you".
Maybe it's the way the author put the material together. Hakakian took her own immigrant experience, and blended it in with the experiences of other recent immigrants she interviewed into a single thread. The problem is not all the experiences blend together and without any attachment to real people it was harder to connect.
Don't get me wrong - there were parts of the book I did connect with. But overall I can't really recommend this one. Two stars ⭐⭐.… (mer)
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stevesbookstuff | 1 annan recension | Sep 5, 2021 |
stevesbookstuff | 1 annan recension | Sep 5, 2021 | 
This is the story of the assassination of leading Iranian and Kurdish expatriates in Berlin by agents of the Iranian regime, and the long, slow route to a form of justice. A fascinating look at a morally corrupt regime, and its victims. Depressing for all that, because even though the regime is implicated, nothing really changes.
A well-written history of an important but often overlooked moment in the history of Europe's relationship to the Iranian regime. Showing the fruits of extensive interviews, the book sometimes reads more like a novel than a history as it describes the thoughts and emotional state of some of the key characters.
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