We always think we know something about people, but then Shida Bazyar brilliantly shows us how much we still have to learn. -- Olga Grjasnowa, author of City of Jasmine Bazyars stories strike at the aching heart of exile. A pulsing longing for a better future lingers from its first page to its last. A quietly beautiful exploration of the trauma of losing ones homeland to a savage regime, the novel is testament to how hope and the revolutionary spirit endure in the face of crushing tyranny, how courage cannot be fully stamped out. It lies dormant, awaiting a time when it can again ignite new acts of bravery, new waves of revolution. -- Rhoda Kwan * The Saturday Paper * So lively, so touching, and more relevant than ever. Read it! * Cosmopolitan * With a clear, sharp eye and plenty of space and feeling for contradictions, Bazyar draws a family portrait of people who have started a new life in a foreign country and are trying to keep something of the old. * Books Magazine * Praise for Sisters in Arms:
A smart, important novel that gives you a caress on the cheek and a punch in the jaw as you read it. The amazing thing is that in the end you want more of both. -- Pierre Jarawan author of Song for the Missing Praise for Sisters in Arms:
Shida Bazyar tells us uncompromisingly, powerfully, and accusingly what it means to have ones origins constantly questioned. -- Judges comments for The German Book Prize Praise for Sisters in Arms:
Humane, relatable, and self-aware, Sisters in Arms is an involving novel that indicts polite neoliberalism and open racism alike for the ways in which people in contemporary societies are forced apart. * Foreword Reviews *
