Married to a stranger
By: Nahid Rachlin.
Edition: 1st City Lights Books ed.
Publisher: City Lights
Published: 1993
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Marriage -- Iran -- Fiction
Description: "When Minou Hakini marries a man of her own choosing-an intellectual and a radical-and moves to Abadan, a thriving oil town near the Iraqi border, she imagines her life will be adventurous and liberating. Before long, however, she becomes aware of her husband's suspicious liaisons and dangerous activities. Her struggle to forge her own identity as a woman in contemporary Iran is charged with passion, anger, and finally a need to escape."--BOOK JACKET.