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"Naïma has always known that her family came from Algeria - but up until now, that meant very little to her. Born and raised in France, her knowledge of that foreign country is limited to what she's learned from her grandparents' tiny flat in a crumbling French sink estate: the food cooked for her, the few precious things they brought with them when they fled. On the past, her family is silent. Why was her grandfather Ali forced to leave? Was he a harki - an Algerian who worked for and supported the French during the Algerian War of Independence? Once a wealthy landowner, how did he become an immigrant scratching a living in France? Naïma's father, Hamid, says he remembers nothing. A child when the family left, in France he re-made himself: education was his ticket out of the family home, the key to acceptance into French society. But now, for the first time since they left, one of Ali's family is going back. Naïma will see Algeria for herself, will ask the questions about her family's history that, till now, have had no answers."--Publisher.

Cinquanta due settimane, tanto tempo ha la dieciannuale Mona per scoprire tutta la bellezza del mondo. Ogni mercoledì, il suo nonno Henry la porta dopo scuola in galleria, dove si immergono insieme in un'opera d'arte. Così, per quasi un anno, Mona e Henry visitano il Museo d'Orsay, il Louvre e il Centro Pompidou, dedicando ogni settimana a un diverso capolavoro tra i cinquantadue selezionati. Esaminano attentamente ogni opera, discutono, si lasciano sorprendere, commuovere, mettere in discussione e affascinare, consapevoli che Mona rischia di perdere la vista entro un anno. Esplorando le opere e le idee di Botticelli, Vermeer, Goya, Courbet, Kahlo, Basquiat e molti altri, Mona scopre non solo la forza nascosta nell'arte, ma anche il significato della nobiltà, dei dubbi, della malinconia, della perdita e della rivolta. Gli occhi di Mona sono un romanzo sulla profondità della vita umana, una guida affascinante attraverso opere d'arte significative e una toccante storia del legame tra una piccola ragazza e il suo nonno.

Kimia Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five, with a new life and the prospect of a child, Kimia is inundated by her own memories and the stories of her ancestors, which reach her in unstoppable, uncontainable waves. In the waiting room of a Parisian fertility clinic, generations of flamboyant Sadrs return to her, including her formidable great-grandfather Montazemolmolk, with his harem of fifty-two wives, and her parents, Darius and Sara, stalwart opponents of each regime that befalls them. In this high-spirited, kaleidoscopic story, key moments of Iranian history, politics, and culture punctuate stories of family drama and triumph. Yet it is Kimia herself-punk-rock aficionado, storyteller extraordinaire, a Scheherazade of our time, and above all a modern woman divided between family traditions and her own "disorientalisation"-who forms the heart of this bestselling and beloved novel.