Meet Author Javad Djavahery on Tour for "My Part of Her"

We’re thrilled to introduce Iranian author Javad Djavahery to English-language readers across the country this spring. In his extraordinary English debut My Part of Her, a group of friends spend a heady, magical summer on the Caspian Sea in the 1970s—and a moment of folly transforms all of their lives in the wake of the Revolution just a few years later. “Mesmerizing” (Publishers Weekly) and “vivid, shattering, and utterly memorable” (Kirkus), it’s introduced by Dina Nayeri and beautifully translated by Emma Ramadan. We hope you’ll join us at one of these events!

Feb. 25 – With translator Emma Ramadan at Brookline Booksmith (Brookline, MA)

Feb. 26 – With translator Emma Ramadan at Riffraff Bookstore (Providence, RI)

Mar. 2 – University of California Irvine (Irvine, CA)

Mar. 3 – LA Public Library, Westwood Branch (Los Angeles, CA)

Mar. 4 – City Lights Bookstore (San Francisco, CA)

Mar. 5 – Diaspora Arts Connection (Berkeley, CA)

Mar. 6 – Green Apple Books (San Francisco, CA)

Mar. 11 – With Katherine Zoepf at Albertine (New York, NY)

Mar. 12 – With Idra Novey at Community Bookstore (Brooklyn, NY)

This tour is organized with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

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About the Author

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Celebrated Iranian novelist and short story writer, Javad Djavahery was forced to leave Iran, settling in France as a political refugee at the age of twenty, and is now based in Paris. Djavahery has produced several films and writes screenplays and fiction. He has two short story collections in Persian and two novels in French. My Part of Her is his English-language debut.

About the Translator

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Emma Ramadan is a literary translator based in Providence, RI where she is the co-owner of Riffraff, a bookstore and bar. She is the recipient of an NEA Translation Fellowship, a PEN/Heim grant, and a Fulbright scholarship.