![]() He names the baby Aria and he tries very hard to provide her with love and security but Aria’s life is not easy: she struggles to find maternal love and grows up with three mother figures in her life “a mother who left her, a mother who beat her, and a mother who loved her but wouldn’t say so.”Īria’s early childhood is spent in the care of her father Behrouz’s embittered wife, Zahra, who mistreats her and seems to hate the child, but then fate leads Aria to the home and the care of Fareshteh, a well-to-do woman from an originally Zoroastrian family. This debut novel by a young Canadian author tells the story of Aria, a baby girl abandoned by her mother in a Tehran alleyway and adopted by the kindly man who finds her. When it arrived, I felt the usual thrill one experiences of having a new book in my hands and then I began reading and was completely immersed in the story for the next day and a half. While the enforced isolation we endure as the world tries to control the spread of the pandemic may be difficult in some respects, one plus point is that many people are rediscovering the joy of reading books.Īfter recently reading Graham Greene’s memoir A Sort of Life and Aldous Huxley’s brilliant Brave New World, I happened to come across a review of Nazanine Hozar’s novel Aria and my interest was so piqued that I ordered the book immediately. ![]() Life in the time of Covid-19 is quieter and calmer and more uncertain than life before The Virus. ![]()
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