JASMIN DARZNIK

Jasmin Darznik emigró a Estados Unidos cuando solo tenía tres años y creció ignorándolo casi todo acerca de la historia de su familia y de sus orígenes en Irán. Un día, cuando tenía poco más de veinte años y su padre acababa de morir, Jasmin encontro una foto entre un fajo de cartas viejas. En ella se veia a una joven con velo de novia y a su lado habia un hombre que Jasmin nunca habia visto. La joven retratada era su madre. Lili, la madre de Jasmin, no quiso hablar de la fotografia y Jasmin volvio a casa frustrada y confundida. Pero unos meses mas tarde, su madre le mando la primera de diez cintas de casete que le revelarian la historia secreta de sus origenes. En esta impresionante y bella historia, Jasmin convierte las vidas de tres generaciones de mujeres en Iran en el gran relato de la lucha de una familia por la libertad y la comprension. El resultado es una novela encantadora e inolvidable sobre secretos y traiciones, y sobre el irrompible lazo que une a madres e hijas.

LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER A spellbinding debut novel about the trailblazing Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, who defied societys expectations to find her voice and her destinyA complex and beautiful rendering of [a] vanished country and its scattered people, a reminder of the power and purpose of art, and an ode to female creativity under a patriarchy that repeatedly tries to snuff it out.The New York Times Book Review (Editors Choice) All through her childhood in Tehran, Forugh Farrokhzad is told that Persian daughters should be quiet and modest. She is taught only to obey, but she always finds ways to rebelgossiping with her sister among the fragrant roses of her mothers walled garden, venturing to the forbidden rooftop to roughhouse with her three brothers, writing poems to impress her strict, disapproving father, and sneaking out to flirt with a teenage paramour over cafe glace. During the summer of 1950, Forughs passion for poetry takes flightand tradition seeks to clip her wings. Forced into a suffocating marriage, Forugh runs away and falls into an affair that fuels her desire to write and to achieve freedom and independence. Forughs poems are considered both scandalous and brilliant; she is heralded by some as a national treasure, vilified by others as a demon influenced by the West. She perseveres, finding love with a notorious filmmaker and living by her own rulesat enormous cost. But the power of her writing only grows stronger amid the upheaval of the Iranian revolution. Inspired by Forugh Farrokhzads verse, letters, films, and interviewsand including original translations of her poemsthis haunting novel uses the lens of fiction to capture the tenacity, spirit, and conflicting desires of a brave woman who represents the birth of feminism in Iranand who continues to inspire generations of women around the world.Praise for Song of a Captive BirdIf poetry is emotion rendered incendiary, then Forugh Farrokhzad was made of fire. . . . Song of a Captive Bird is an unsparing account of the necessity and consequences of speaking out.BookPageSometimes, simply choosing whom to love is a political act.Vogue Forugh Farrokhzads short life brimmed with controversy and rebellion . . . .This feminist icon inspired Darzniks imaginative debut.Ms.

A dazzling novel of one of Americas most celebrated photographers, Dorothea Lange, exploring the wild years in San Francisco that awakened her career-defining grit, compassion, and daring.Jasmin Darznik expertly delivers an intriguing glimpse into the woman behind those unforgettable photographs of the Great Depression, and their impact on humanity.Susan Meissner, bestselling author of The Nature of Fragile ThingsIn this novel of the glittering and gritty Jazz Age, a young aspiring photographer named Dorothea Lange arrives in San Francisco in 1918. As a newcomerand naive one at thatDorothea is grateful for the fast friendship of Caroline Lee, a vivacious, straight-talking Chinese American with a complicated past, who introduces Dorothea to Monkey Block, an artists colony and the bohemian heart of the city. Dazzled by Caroline and her friends, Dorothea is catapulted into a heady new world of freedom, art, and politics. She also finds herself falling in love with the brilliant but troubled painter Maynard Dixon. As Dorothea sheds her innocence, her purpose is awakened and she grows into the artist whose iconic Depression-era Migrant Mother photograph broke the hearts and opened the eyes of a nation.A vivid and absorbing portrait of the past, The Bohemians captures a cast of unforgettable characters, including Frida Kahlo, Ansel Adams, and D. H. Lawrence. But moreover, it shows how the gift of friendship and the possibility of self-invention persist against the ferocious pull of history.

With this one word, Lili had finally understood many things: that no matter what she promised or sacrificed or gave, she would always be broken to her daughter.When Jasmin Darznik finds a photo among her fathers possessions shortly after his death, she recognises the child in the veil and brides clothes as her mother, Lili, but the groom is unfamiliar. Who had her mother married all those years before? A few months later Lili sends Jasmin ten cassette tapes which reveal the secret history of their family: the true story of the abusive man she married, and the daughter she was forced to leave behind.This is an unforgettable story of secrets, betrayal and exile, and of an unshakeable mother-daughter bond.

1918. Dorothea Lange, la vingtaine téméraire, débarque à San Francisco. La catastrophe dont elle est le témoin marque un tournant dans sa vie. Elle se lie damitié avec Caroline Lee, artiste au passé

« Le monde se réduisait à nous deux, ma mère et moi, jusquà ce que je devienne une fille américaine. Cest alors quelle a commencé à me parler de la Bonne Fille. Elle vivait en Iran. Elle ne répondait

Forough Farrokhzad a grandi à Téhéran dans les années 1930, au sein dune famille de sept enfants. Dans la maison règne une discipline de fer, et les enfants nappellent pas leur père "papa", mais "Col