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010      2019041713 
020    9781524749033|q(hardcover) 
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092    |fF|aHOZAR 
100 1  Hozar, Nazanine,|eauthor. 
245 10 Aria /|cNazanine Hozar. 
250    First United States edition. 
264  1 New York :|bPantheon Books,|c[2020] 
300    434 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "Iran in the 1950s is wealthy in oil but riven by 
       divisions of class, ethnicity, and religion, and its 
       corrupt government is under foreign influence. At this 
       volatile moment, an illiterate driver rescues a redheaded,
       blue-eyed baby girl who has been abandoned in a Tehran 
       alley and names her Aria. When he can no longer care for 
       her, he finds her a new home, setting her on an unlikely 
       path from extreme deprivation to a life of privilege. 
       Along the way, Aria acquires three mother figures with 
       secrets of their own: one who abuses her, one who adopts 
       her, and one whose role in her life is initially 
       mysterious. At university, Aria is drawn ever further from
       her poverty-stricken past, until the 1979 revolution 
       brings her various worlds violently together again. She 
       and her friends are swept up in the excitement and danger 
       as the shah is overthrown, but the final stage of the 
       revolution will bring the Ayatollah Khomeini to power at 
       the head of a brutal theocracy--just as Aria has become a 
       mother herself. Nazanine Hozar's stunning debut gives us 
       an unusually intimate view of a momentous time, through 
       the eyes of a young woman coming to terms with the 
       mysteries of her own past and future"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
650  0 Orphans|vFiction. 
650  0 Adoptive parents|vFiction. 
651  0 Iran|xHistory|yMohammad Reza Pahlavi, 1941-1979|vFiction. 
651  0 Iran|xHistory|yRevolution, 1979|vFiction. 
655  7 Historical fiction.|2gsafd