{"product_id":"foreigner-paperback-1","title":"Foreigner - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNahid Rachlin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Nahid Rachlin has an intimate insider's knowledge of present-day everyday Iran -- of people and places, houses, streets, and families -- and she writes of them with a clarity of perception and style that makes them instantly recognizable and even homely and familiar to the reader.\" -- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala \"Rachlin's prose carefully understates and suggests her heroine's awakening to a pervasive atmosphere of menace and sensuality; residue of a culture she thinks she has abandoned, but which continues to claim her.\" -- Bruce Allen, \u003cem\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e \"\u003cem\u003eForeigner\u003c\/em\u003e gently raises new as well as timeless questions about an unhappy woman's faith and freedom.\" -- \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e \"Conveys the texture of extended family, the stress of modernization, the strain of Moslem rigidity as well as the harmony of nature, of dust and carpets, fruits, sweets, tea, fine rice and gossip. Always gossip.\" -- Eden Lipson, \"Special Edition,\" WNET\/Thirteen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 194\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 17, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42134049226887,"sku":"9780393319088","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/98e571cdb8c005012155c7269d75acd1_a76b48fa-9775-41c5-950e-7f55649a257c.webp?v=1732638777","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/foreigner-paperback-1","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}