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Porochista Khakpour

    Porochista Khakpour est une auteure contemporaine dont l'œuvre explore les thèmes de l'identité, de l'appartenance et des complexités de la navigation dans des paysages culturels et personnels. Sa prose se caractérise souvent par son honnêteté viscérale et un style vif et observateur, offrant aux lecteurs des aperçus intimes de la condition humaine. À travers son exploration des expériences d'immigrants et la quête de soi, Khakpour crée des récits qui résonnent avec un profond sentiment de déracinement et de résilience. Son écriture défie les perspectives conventionnelles, invitant les lecteurs à considérer la nature multiforme du foyer et de l'héritage.

    Sick
    Sons and Other Flammable Objects
    • Sick

      • 272pages
      • 10 heures de lecture

      BuzzFeed's 33 Most Exciting New BooksBustle's 28 Most Anticipated Non-fiction Books of 2018Nylon's 50 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018Huffington Post's 60 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018Electric Literature's 46 Books to Read By Women of Colour in 2018For as long as Porochista Khakpour can remember, she has been sick. For most of that time, she didn't know why. A story of survival, pain and transformation, Sick examines the colossal impact of illness on one woman's life. It is a journey that took Porochista Khakpour from Tehran, the town of her birth, through the major cities of America, the country she came to call home, before she eventually found a diagnosis of late-stage Lyme disease.Sick explores what it means to feel at home in one's body, and also one's country. And what it means not to.

      Sick2018
      3,5
    • Khakpour delivers a unique and powerful first novel, with rolling storytelling cadences and a wry wit, that is at once a comedy and a tragedy, a family history and a modern coming-of-age story with a distinctly timeless resonance.

      Sons and Other Flammable Objects2008
      3,7