Veils
Subtitle: short stories
By: Nahid Rachlin.
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 1992
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
Subjects: Iranian Americans -- Fiction
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.