Iranian author Javad Djavahery will present and read from his astonishing English-language debut, My Part of Her, at the Los Angeles Public Library, Westwood Branch.
Set on the Caspian Sea one heady summer before the Iranian Revolution, My Part of Her is “an aching evocation of paradise lost, one that is impossible to regain, even in our narrator’s searching dreams” (Kirkus).
When: Tuesday, March 3, 6 pm
Where: LA Public Library, Westwood Branch (Los Angeles, CA)
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.
This tour is organized with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
By Javad Djavahery
Translated from the French by Emma Ramadan
Preface by Dina Nayeri
In exiled Iranian author Javad Djavahery’s captivating English debut, a youthful betrayal during a summer on the Caspian sea has far-reaching consequences for a group of friends as their lives are irrevocably altered by the Revolution.
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632062437
Publication date: Feb 11, 2020