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Half a Cup of Sand and Sky

A Novel

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Half a Cup of Sand and Sky

By: Nadine Bjursten
Narrated by: Marzi Nikka
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It is 1977, and the anti-shah protests at Tehran University are intensifying, but Amineh is not like her peers who want a say in the future of their country. Her thoughts are on the beautiful literature of another era and her past of rose harvests and Sufi poetry evenings under the desert sky. A chance encounter with Farzad, an opposition leader and disarmament activist, will thrust her into a life she didnt ask for and didnt want. Nobody wanted the tyranny that is quickly turning worse than the tyranny it replaced. But maybe Amineh has been looking at her life all wrong.

Maybe the thing she is seeking is not in the past at all.

©2023 Nadine Bjursten (P)2024 Nadine Bjursten
Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Political

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Bjursten immerses readers in a life, a nation, and an era. . . Publishers Weekly, Editor's Pick

Brilliantly layered and beautifully written, this PEN America finalist is both a searing character portrait and an incisive examination of Iranian history, which is at once moving and illuminating. The Independent Review of Books, Reviewers Pick

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