Porochista Khakpour Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Porochista Khakpour è un'autrice contemporanea la cui opera si addentra nei temi dell'identità, dell'appartenenza e delle complessità del navigare paesaggi culturali e personali. La sua prosa è spesso caratterizzata da un'onestà viscerale e uno stile acuto e osservatore, offrendo ai lettori scorci intimi della condizione umana. Attraverso la sua esplorazione delle esperienze degli immigrati e la ricerca di sé, Khakpour crea narrazioni che risuonano con un profondo senso di sradicamento e resilienza. La sua scrittura sfida le prospettive convenzionali, invitando i lettori a considerare la natura sfaccettata della casa e dell'eredità.

Sick
272pagine
10 ore di lettura
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.
2018
3,5
Sons and Other Flammable Objects
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.
2008
3,7

Sick

Sons and Other Flammable Objects