Life as a Visitor Date:
September 2009 Publisher:
Assouline, France Price:
$ 24.95 Comment: “I
may be what you call a permanent tourist no longer living beneath the
sky that I was born under, but always on a quest or a journey,” writes
Angela Nazarian. As an eleven year-old Iranian Jew, she was forced by
increasing violence from her childhood cocoon in Teheran. But this
first journey would be prophetic, as travel has become for her not only
a way of life, but a way of understanding.
Part
memoir, part travel diary, Life as a Visitor presents two Interwoven
narratives of her family’s harrowing escape from revolution-rocked Iran
to the glitz and glamour of Beverly Hills, and of her own quest to
understand both her past and present. Nazarian’s exploration of self
masquerades as spectacular journeys through foreign lands, from
wildebeest safaris to the gates of Petra, she takes in brutal poverty
in Cambodia, exquisite beauty in Marbella, Spain, and one lonely
tortoise in Galapagos Islands. Featuring an evocative selection of
images, this multifaceted, impressionistic mix of prose and poetry is
rich in observation and sensuous detail. source: http://www.roshan-institute.org/templates/System/details.asp?id=39783&PID=634761 |
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