by Anosh Irani · Edizioni Piemme · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788856602555
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«Destini di vetro» is the contemporary fiction novel by Anosh Irani, published by Edizioni Piemme in paperback (320 pages, in Italian).
Set in 1920s Iran, it tells of the flight of Shapur, a Zoroastrian boy, and his father to India, where a sweet fruit found in Dahanu changes their fate. Eighty years later, the elderly Shapur chooses his grandson Zairos as heir, but Zairos's love for a Warli slave woman uncovers a family secret buried for decades.
Translated into Italian by Velia Februari and Anna Rusconi, the novel was nominated for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2010 and the OLA Evergreen Award in 2011.
For readers of contemporary fiction and family sagas, with a historical setting between Iran and India.
Anosh Irani is an Indo-Canadian novelist and playwright, born and raised in Mumbai.
