Dalia Sofer
From bestselling author Dalia Sofer, Man of My Time is the story of an Iranian man who loses his soul bit by bit after he joins the Iranian revolution. Estranged from his family who has fled to New York, he reunites with them briefly, and agrees to take his father’s ashes back to Iran. This forces him to reckon with a lifetime filled with betrayal, in service to regime which has turned him into a man he no longer recognizes.
Man of My Time was named a New York Times Notable Book and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.
Born in Tehran, Sofer was raised during Iran’s Revolution. She moved to New York City when she was 11. She received her BA at NYU and her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Sofer is the recipient of the 2008 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for The Septembers of Shiraz. She also won a 2007 Whiting Award for fiction, and has been a resident at Yaddo. She lives in New York City.
“[Man of My Time is] finely wrought, a master class in the layering of time and contradiction.” –The New York Times Book Review. “Mesmerizing and unsettling.” –Publishers Weekly. “A perceptive, humane inquiry into Iran's history and soul.” –Kirkus Review.
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Man of My Time
From bestselling author Dalia Sofer, Man of My Time is the story of an Iranian man who loses his soul bit by bit after he joins the Iranian revolution. Estranged from his family who has fled to New York, he reunites with them briefly, and agrees to take his father’s ashes back to Iran. This forces him to reckon with a lifetime filled with betrayal, in service to regime which has turned him into a man he no longer recognizes.
Man of My Time was named a New York Times Notable Book and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.