Nahid Rachlin

• Jun-2026
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A searing portrait of forced girlhood and generational grief, Given Away reveals the quiet strength of a woman surviving child marriage and motherhood in 1930s Iran.In 1930s Iran, ten-year-old Mehri is given away in marriage, the first step...

• Jun-2024
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Set in contemporary Iran, Mirage delves into the complicated relationship between Roya and her identical twin sister, Tala. Their inseparable bond becomes hard to maintain as they grow older, but when they both get pregnant at the same time, their re...

• May-2019
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The characters in the twenty stories in Nahid Rachlin's short story collection, A Way Home, mostly set in Iran and America, not only long for home but face the question: Where, really, is my home? Themes of separation--children from parents, spouses ...

• Sep-2016
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Zora, just separated from her American husband, with a six-year old daughter, Anar, has had a highly unsettled life so far. After her marriage falls apart, she moves with Anar to a row house in Cambridge, MA, that shares a backyard with several young...

• Jan-2008
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For many years, heartache prevented Nahid Rachlin from turning her sharp novelist's eye inward: to tell the story of how her own life diverged from that of her closest confidante and beloved sister, Pari. Growing up in Iran, both refused to accept tr...

• Apr-2006
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An Iranian family embroiled in Islamic revolution, the hostage crisis, incest and exile in AmericaForced to flee the country with their parents as Khomeini rises to power, Nora and Jahan Ellahi rise to the challenge of anti-Iranian hostility in Ameri...

• Jan-2001
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Jennifer Sahary, an American artist, and her husband Karim, a professor and Iranian immigrant, make an extended visit to Teheran shortly after the Iran-Iraq War, encountering unforeseen dangers and sexual temptations that change the course of thei...

• Jan-2001
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A woman's struggle for self-realization in contemporary Iran, a novel with "the clarity and spare sensuousness of Persian poetry or miniature painting." -- Ruth Prawer JhabvalaWhen Minou Hakini marries a man of her own choosing -- an intellectual and...

• Jan-2001
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The ten stories in Veils take place in present-day Iran or in the United States where Iranian immigrants face alien ways. Teheran's ancient Ghanat Abad Avenue, with its labyrinth of narrow streets and alleys, loosely links the stories into a singl...

• Jul-1999
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"A rare, intimate look at Iranians. . . . I have read [this book] four times by now, and each time I have discovered new layers in it." -- Anne Tyler, New York Times Book Review "Nahid Rachlin has an intimate insider's knowledge of present-day every...