num_pages: 368
description: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780393046977Tense with suspense from the first line, this is one of the great American realist novels. In this page-turning, breathtaking novel, the characters will walk off the page and into your life. And a small house will seem like the most important piece of territory in the world.On a road crew in California, a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force under the Shah yearns to restore his family's dignity. When an attractive bungalow comes available on county auction for a fraction of its value, he sees a great opportunity for himself, his wife, and his children. But the house's former owner, a recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck, doesn't see it that way, nor does her lover, a married cop driven to extremes to win her love and get her house back.House of Sand and Fog is a narrative triumph in which a traditional immigrant success story and a modern love story are turned upside down with brutal, heartrending consequences. It is an American tragedy, and a shockingly true picture of the country we live in today.
language: English
title: House of Sand and Fog
titlecomplete: House of Sand and Fog
characters: Kathy Nicolo, Sheriff Lester Burdon, Colonel Behrani
genres: Fiction, Book Club, Suspense, Contemporary, Drama, Adult, Literary Fiction, Adult Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 131817
places: California
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company