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Niloufar-Lily’s 2024 Year in Books
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Niloufar-Lily Soltani
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The Name, Zulaikha
Power Q-A with River Street Writing about my novel, Zulaikha
Q: One of the aspects of your book we loved the most is how you immerse the reader in a world that is likely vastly different than the world many English-language readers are familiar with, and while making the story absorbing, you don't pander to these readers. The protagonist's name, Zulaikha, is a good example of this balance: it's not Read more of this blog post »
Q: One of the aspects of your book we loved the most is how you immerse the reader in a world that is likely vastly different than the world many English-language readers are familiar with, and while making the story absorbing, you don't pander to these readers. The protagonist's name, Zulaikha, is a good example of this balance: it's not Read more of this blog post »
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"It is a hundred years since Thomas Mann has written The Magic Mountain (TMM). I’ve read TMM twice. The first time i’ve struggled and the second time I’ve absolutely admired that novel. So i thought it would be a good way to celebrate by reading the n"
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“He had studied Greek at school, but the teacher used to hit them with a ruler across the hands, so now he associated the language with a sudden, burning pain that, though short-lived, pierced to the bone. That was how the poetry of Homer had been recorded in his flesh.”
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“Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself. ”
― Women in Love
― Women in Love
“Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.”
― Women in Love
― Women in Love
“And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.”
― Women in Love (mobi)
― Women in Love (mobi)
“I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong.”
― Women in Love
― Women in Love
“How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?”
― Snow
― Snow
