Dare the Sea: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810146440)

Debut short-story collection in English from acclaimed fiction writer Ali Hosseini, named a Favorite Short Story Collection of 2023 by the Chicago Review of Books

The stories in Dare the Sea explore Iran's landscape, culture, and the undercurrent of change affecting its people--both in Iran and the United States. The stories in the first half of the collection are set in Iran in the time before and just after the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Each tale discloses the obstacles rural Iranians lived with on a daily basis and the exigencies of survival: petty theft, corruption, drug trafficking, religion, and love. Stories in the second half take place in exile, where characters are seemingly dropped into American locales like the Midwest or Hawaii, taking in their situation with only the survival skills they've learned in their own land and enduring the hardships of being strangers in a new country.

Loosely interconnected by reappearing characters, the stories in Dare the Sea are strongly linked by the country of Iran, its landscape, its history, and its hold on its people.

Author: Ali Hosseini
ISBN-10: 0810146444
ISBN-13: 9780810146440
Publisher: Curbstone Press
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2023
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.98w x 0.55d