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Good Girl by Aria Aber review – coming of age in Berlin

Jan 16, 2025 | msn.com | Dina Nayeri

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Good Girl by Aria Aber review – coming of age in Berlin

Jan 16, 2025 | msn.com | Dina Nayeri

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Good Girl by Aria Aber review - coming of age in Berlin

Jan 16, 2025 | theguardian.com | Dina Nayeri

Nila is the wild, rebellious daughter of Afghan doctors who fled their home before she was born and settled in a brutalist social housing block in Berlin. After 9/11, the family learned to lie (“To resent ourselves with precision”), to hide parts of themselves that seemed too much like “those people”; Muslims in a city where Nazis were alive and well. Then her mother died, and Nila began looking for a way out.
Shattered by Hanif Kureishi review - picking up the pieces

Oct 30, 2024 | theguardian.com | Dina Nayeri

‘All day, all night the body intervenes,” wrote Virginia Woolf in On Being Ill. It “blunts or sharpens, colours or discolours, turns to wax in the warmth of June, hardens to tallow in the murk of February. The creature within can only gaze through the pane – smudged or rosy; it cannot separate off from the body.”On Boxing Day 2022, in Rome with his Italian partner Isabella, Hanif Kureishi felt dizzy while sitting at the table. He fainted, landing on his neck and becoming tetraplegic as a result.
My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss review – trauma response

Aug 28, 2024 | msn.com | Dina Nayeri

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My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss review – an important book about a devastating childhood

Aug 28, 2024 | theguardian.com | Dina Nayeri

Young Sarah is the lonely daughter of austere, unhappy postwar academics whose stingy love, penny-pinching and body-shaming contributed to a lifetime of food panic. Now Sarah is a celebrated novelist, an academic with a sharp mind, a spellbinding imagination and sizzling prose. But, throughout her memoir, My Good Bright Wolf, a toxic chorus whispers in her ear as she writes, calling her a liar.
Broken Threads by Mishal Husain review – a spectacular family chronicle of partition

Jun 8, 2024 | msn.com | Dina Nayeri

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Broken Threads by Mishal Husain review - a spectacular family chronicle of partition

Jun 8, 2024 | theguardian.com | Dina Nayeri

I have to pay a debt of honour and write something for him,” Tahirah Butt says in a cassette recording made shortly after the death of her husband, Shahid Hamid, in 1993. “I keep thinking to myself, what can I do to make him come to life again?” The couple had occupied a front row seat for the partition that remade the Indian subcontinent, spectators to history.
Discover A Story

Jun 7, 2024 | refugeeweek.org.uk | Abdulrazak Gurnah |Dina Nayeri

Stories are a way of making sense of the world and our place in it. They help us connect with other people and ourselves. By reading and listening to stories about refugee experiences, we can deepen our understanding of the impact of forced migration and displacement. This Refugee Week, we encourage you to pick a book or listen to a podcast that platforms the stories and perspectives of refugees and asylum seekers.
remembering John Burnside

Jun 3, 2024 | msn.com | Andrew O'Hagan |Dina Nayeri |Sarah Perry |Kiran Millwood Hargrave |Marjorie Lofti

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