Familial Undercurrents: Untold Stories of Love and Marriage in Modern Iran

Afsaneh Najmabadi

This book is inspired by a personal story. In early March 1987, I received a phone call from Tehran. On the other side of a bad connection, a man claimed he was my brother-in-law, married to my sister Mina. I had never before known of a sister named Mina. This was a short few months after my father’s death in October 1986 (in Cambridge, Massachusetts). Rather shocked, I asked him to send me any corroborating documents, discontinued the conversation, and conveniently tucked it away into forgetfulness. I disbelieved the claim, and for a combination of reasons (including my mother’s distress and refusal to meet with them on her visits to Iran), I did not connect with Mina until twenty years later. In 2005, I began to visit Iran regularly. I met Mina for the first time in 2007; slowly and hesitantly, I established a relationship with her. But then I became gripped with a detective fever, with an obsession to know about my father’s other life, the family he had kept a secret from us.

جهت استعلام قيمت و سفارش چاپ اين محصول لطفا با انتشارات گنج حضور تماس حاصل فرماييد.