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Laleh Khadivi

Biography

Laleh Khadivi

Laleh Khadivi was born in Esfahan, Iran, in 1977. In the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution her family fled, finally settling in Canada and then the United States. Khadivi received her MFA from Mills College and was a Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction at Emory University. In 2008 she received The Whiting Writers' Award. In 2009 she published her first novel, THE AGE OF ORPHANS. Laleh Khadivi lives in California.

Laleh Khadivi

Books by Laleh Khadivi

by Laleh Khadivi
The Age of Orphans follows Reza Khourdi on his meteoric rise in ranks, his marriage to a proud Tehrani woman and his eventual deployment, as Capitan, back to the Zagros Mountains and the ever-defiant Kurds. Here Reza is responsible for policing, and sometimes killing, his own people, and it is here that his carefully crafted persona begins to fissure and crack.