Foreigner
Nahid Rachlin
W. W. Norton & Company
<p>"A rare, intimate look at Iranians. . . . I have read [this book] four times by now, and each time I have discovered new layers in it." —Anne Tyler, <i>New York Times Book Review</i>"Nahid Rachlin has an intimate insider's knowledge of present-day everyday Iran — of people and places, houses, streets, and families — and she writes of them with a clarity of perception and style that makes them instantly recognizable and even homely and familiar to the reader." — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala "Rachlin's prose carefully understates and suggests her heroine's awakening to a pervasive atmosphere of menace and sensuality; residue of a culture she thinks she has abandoned, but which continues to claim her." — Bruce Allen, <i>Chicago Tribune</i> "<i>Foreigner</i> gently raises new as well as timeless questions about an unhappy woman's faith and freedom." — <i>The New Yorker</i> "Conveys the texture of extended family, the stress of modernization, the strain...</p>