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Echoes from the Other Land now available in e-book and on Kindle! Order here Echoes from the Other Land is nominated for the world's largest short story award: Frank O'Connor Short Story Prize. Details Echoes from the Other Land is one of the top ten winners of the CBC Reader's Choice Contest for the Giller Prize. Details
"a prismatic portrait of Iran that resists both internal tyrannies and Western demonization." Ava Homa is Canada’s exquisite answer to Raymond Carver. Homa announces new beginnings—less irony, more hope—and from a breathtakingly multicultural and international perspective. Readers will experience awe and beauty at the force of Homa’s art to convey female Iranian protagonists wholeheartedly grasping their lives. A taut and subtle plain-spokenness enlivens her writing, belying rich dramatic tensions that build just beneath the surface—which will surprise readers and then captivate them. Echoes from the Other Land is carefully crafted in a realist style but, when compared to homogenized portrayals of Iran in the western media, the reader’s experience more closely resembles the surreal. For a western reader the conflict of the real and the surreal resonates – it echoes – and does not fade away. What makes these stories work is the simplicity and directness of their telling. Homa suggests much and states little outright. Maybe this approach is, in fact, the true “echo from the other land” — Iran — in which much is unspoken and cannot be said, in which there’s no doubt a vocabulary of signs and signals and coded words with layers of meanings and suggestiveness. This elusive approach to storytelling is subtle and powerful, haunting the reader with the silence between the words. Ranging across regions, ethnicities, genders, sexualities and political dispositions, Homa’s characters give us a prismatic portrait of Iran that resists both internal tyrannies and Western demonization. Her style is elegantly spare, gem-solid. This is a voice we all need to hear. "It is perhaps the aspiration of serious fiction to embody a sensibility and a place in so natural a way, with so little artifice, and it is certainly the hallmark of an artist [Ava Homa] to do this. There are few voices we hear coming from this for fortressed country, and this one, with its many echoes and many silences, is real." --Dawn Promislow author of Jewels and Other Stories -- more about Echoes from the Other Land |
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