Gina B. Nahai is the author of Cry of the Peacock (winner of the Los Angeles Arts Council Award for Fiction), Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith (finalist for the Orange Prize in England and the IMPAC award in Dublin), and Sunday s Silence. Her novels have been translated into sixteen languages and are taught at universities and high schools nationwide. Nahai was a contributing author to The Modern Jewish Girl s Guide to Guilt, which won the 2005 Jewish Book Award, and her writing has also appeared in the "Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Magazine," and the" Jewish Journal of Los Angeles." Nahai currently lives in Los Angeles, where she is a professor of creative writing at the University of Southern California and is at work on a new novel."
Nahai's alluring poetic style draws us into the lives of her female
characters captivating prose a powerful testament to Iranian
women's fight against oppression.
"Ms. Magazine"
Nahai s story of a haunted Jewish family in Tehran during the shah
s last years possesses the dark beauty and harsh lessons of a fairy
tale Nahai s poetic and cathartic drama speaks for all silenced
women, for all who are tyrannized.
"Booklist" STARRED review
both a riveting family drama and compelling historical fiction The
multiple ways Jews and Muslims intersect is also clearly presented,
offering a fascinating glimpse into Persian life prior to the 1979
insurgency. Richly detailed, emotionally intense, and tremendously
moving, this work is highly recommended.
"Library Journal "STARRED review
In her stirring fourth novel, Nahai explores the struggles of an
Iranian family in the tenuous decade before the Islamic revolution
a poignant tale of a damaged family.
"Publishers Weekly"
Filled with hope and despair, Caspian Rain is Nahai's most
emotional and inspiring novel yet. Nahai's heroine the inspired and
inspiring Yaas learns the lessons of obedience, subservience, and
forbearance, and then chooses a surprising and unexpected path.
Lisa See, author of Peony in Love and Snow Flower and the Secret
Fan
Unexpected and heartrending, but also witty, elegiac, sophisticated
and edgy. Caspian Rain is a beautiful book.
Chris Abani, author of Graceland and The Virgin of Flames
In Caspian Rain, Gina Nahai writes with subtlety and grace about
the unappeasable forces of culture, class and family which shape
the life of a young girl growing up in Jewish Tehran before the
mullahs.
Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander and Paint it Black
Caspian Rain" "once more proves Gina B. Nahai's ability to create
through her wonderfully lyrical prose a fictional world that, while
rooted in a particular culture and history, is universally relevant
and appealing.
Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran"
"Nahai's alluring poetic style draws us into the lives of her
female characters...captivating prose...a powerful testament to
Iranian women's fight against oppression."
--"Ms. Magazine"
"Nahai's story of a haunted Jewish family in Tehran during the
shah's last years possesses the dark beauty and harsh lessons of a
fairy tale...Nahai's poetic and cathartic drama speaks for all
silenced women, for all who are tyrannized."
--"Booklist" STARRED review
.,."both a riveting family drama and compelling historical
fiction...The multiple ways Jews and Muslims intersect is also
clearly presented, offering a fascinating glimpse into Persian life
prior to the 1979 insurgency. Richly detailed, emotionally intense,
and tremendously moving, this work is highly recommended."
--"Library Journal "STARRED review
"In her stirring fourth novel, Nahai explores the struggles of an
Iranian family in the tenuous decade before the Islamic
revolution...a poignant tale of a 'damaged family.'"
--"Publishers Weekly"
"Filled with hope and despair, Caspian Rain is Nahai's most
emotional and inspiring novel yet. Nahai's heroine -- the inspired
and inspiring Yaas -- learns the lessons of obedience,
subservience, and forbearance, and then chooses a surprising and
unexpected path."
--Lisa See, author of Peony in Love and Snow Flower and the Secret
Fan
"Unexpected and heartrending, but also witty, elegiac,
sophisticated and edgy. Caspian Rain is a beautiful book."
--Chris Abani, author of Graceland and The Virgin of Flames
"In Caspian Rain, Gina Nahai writes with subtlety and grace about
the unappeasable forces of culture, class and family which shape
the life of a young girlgrowing up in Jewish Tehran before the
mullahs."
--Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander and Paint it Black
"Caspian Rain" "once more proves Gina B. Nahai's ability to create
through her wonderfully lyrical prose a fictional world that, while
rooted in a particular culture and history, is universally relevant
and appealing."
--Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran
"A skilled and inventive writer, Nahai demonstrates in Moonlight on
the Avenue of Faith that even the darkest magic cannot defeat the
extraordinary powers of love...Nahai has achieved some wonderful
effects, infusing everyday events with miraculous radiance."
-- "New York Times Book Review"
"Entrancing...a voice that never loses its poise, that balances
cynicism with hope, warmth with satire, the heavy ballast of life
with the exhilaration of being borne aloft."
-- "Los Angeles Times"
.,."exotic, terrifying, and endlessly alluring. She has the ability
to deploy the telling detail, to write...a marvelous
sentence...passages that contain a wonderful, authentic
rhythm."
-- "Washington Post Book World"
.,."exactly the kind of book that Americans need to be reading
right now, a book in which East and West collide, not only in war,
but in love. Nahai writes equally well about these two worlds, both
beautiful and cruel, both filled with serpents real and imagined.
The novel is a testament to the fact that even at our strangest we
are not so different, that at our strangest we are most alike."
-- "San Francisco Chronicle"
" A skilled and inventive writer, Nahai demonstrates in Moonlight
on the Avenue of Faith that even the darkest magic cannot defeat
the extraordinary powers of love... Nahai has achieved some
wonderful effects, infusing everyday events with miraculous
radiance."
-- "New York Times Book Review"
" Entrancing... a voice that never loses its poise, that balances
cynicism with hope, warmth with satire, the heavy ballast of life
with the exhilaration of being borne aloft."
-- "Los Angeles Times"
" ... exotic, terrifying, and endlessly alluring. She has the
ability to deploy the telling detail, to write... a marvelous
sentence... passages that contain a wonderful, authentic
rhythm."
-- "Washington Post Book World"
" ... exactly the kind of book that Americans need to be reading
right now, a book in which East and West collide, not only in war,
but in love. Nahai writes equally well about these two worlds, both
beautiful and cruel, both filled with serpents real and imagined.
The novel is a testament to the fact that even at our strangest we
are not so different, that at our strangest we are most alike."
-- "San Francisco Chronicle"
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