In Case of Emergency (e-bog) af Mohebali, Mahsa
Mohebali, Mahsa (forfatter)

In Case of Emergency e-bog

132,28 DKK (inkl. moms 165,35 DKK)
In this prize-winning Iranian novel, a spoiled and foul-mouthed young woman looks to get high while her family and city fall to pieces.What do you do when the world is falling apart and youre in withdrawal?Disillusioned, wealthy, and addicted to opium, Shadi wakes up one day to apocalyptic earthquakes and a dangerously low stash. Outside, Tehran is crumbling: yuppies flee in bumper-to-bumper tr...
E-bog 132,28 DKK
Forfattere Mohebali, Mahsa (forfatter), Rahmani, Mariam (oversætter)
Udgivet 30 november 2021
Genrer FA
Sprog English
Format epub
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9781952177873
In this prize-winning Iranian novel, a spoiled and foul-mouthed young woman looks to get high while her family and city fall to pieces.What do you do when the world is falling apart and youre in withdrawal?Disillusioned, wealthy, and addicted to opium, Shadi wakes up one day to apocalyptic earthquakes and a dangerously low stash. Outside, Tehran is crumbling: yuppies flee in bumper-to-bumper traffic as skaters and pretty boys rise up to claim the city as theirs. Cross-dressed to evade hijab laws, Shadi flits between her dysfunctional family and depressed friendsall in search of her next fix.Mahsa Mohebali's groundbreaking novel about Iranian counterculture is a satirical portrait of the disaster that is contemporary life.Weaving together gritty vernacular and cinematic prose,In Case of Emergencytakes a darkly humorous, scathing look at the authoritarian state,global capitalism, and the gender binary.