The Septembers Of Shiraz

"A remarkable debut... richly evocative, powerfully affecting...as beautiful and delicate as a book about suffering can be."  -  Claire Messud, New York Times Book Review

In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, and wrongly accused of being a spy. Terrified by his disappearance, his family must reconcile a new world of cruelty and chaos with the collapse of everything they have known. As Isaac navigates the terrors of prison, and his wife feverishly searches for him, his children struggle with the realization that their family may soon be forced to embark on a journey of incalculable danger.

"An Iranian Jew waits wrongly accused in prison while his family slowly crumbles in Tehran and New York... Sofer’s characters are immensely sympathetic and illustrate plainly and without pretence the global issues of class, religion and politics following the Iranian Revolution. As intelligent as it is gripping."  -  Kirkus Reviews