Fiction. The ten stories in VEILS take place in present-day Iran or in the United States where Iranian immigrants face alien ways. Teheran's ancient Ghanat Abad Avenue, with its labyrinth of narrow streets and alleys, loosely links the stories into a single narrative: some residents leave as soon as they can, others can live nowhere else. The men and women in these spare and sensuous narratives who are caught in the confusing whirl of changing cultures sometimes meet with failure but more often transcend difficult circumstances to gain deeper self-knowledge.
Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA
Nahid Rachlin is an Iranian who lives in New York and teaches at Barnard College. She is the author of JUMPING OVER FIRE, THE HEART'S DESIRE, and MARRIED TO A STRANGER, all novels, and VEILS, a collection of short stories.
Reviews and Other Links
author site