I Will Greet the Sun Again
- Author Khashayar J. Khabushani
- Narrator Sean Rohani
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 5 hours and 22 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Family life fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Social issues.
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What to expect
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A searing, sunlit debut about the powerful bonds that make and break an Iranian-American family
Three young brothers leave Los Angeles in the dead of night for Iran, taken by their father from their mother to a country and an ancestral home they barely recognize. They return to the Valley months later, spit back into American life and changed in inexorable ways. Under the dazzling light of the California sun, our protagonist, the youngest brother, begins to piece together a childhood shattered by his father's violence, a queer adolescence marked by a shy, secret love affair with a boy he meets on the basketball court, and his ever-changing status as a Muslim in America at the turn of the new millennium.
Lyrical and open-hearted, I WILL GREET THE SUN AGAIN is an unforgettable portrait of a family being torn apart, and a boy emerging from its ashes.
'I WILL GREET THE SUN AGAIN is exquisite, heart-breaking, incredibly beautiful. The whole narrative thrums with a bright, warm longing. You can feel the sunshine of LA and Iran, the rhythm of Khashayar J Khabushani's voice. This is a novel to return to again and again.' Caleb Azumah Nelson, award-winning, bestselling author of OPEN WATER
©2023 Khashayar J. Khabushani (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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A triumph… tender and gut-wrenching… a book of astonishing accomplishment and bravery
Guardian -
Exquisite, heart-breaking, incredibly beautiful
Caleb Azumah Nelson -
Life-affirming… Khabushani is a talented writer
Sunday Times -
A heartbreaking debut
New York Times -
A moving debut, teeming with desire and light, and quietly devastating. Khashayar J. Khabushani’s voice keens and surprises, and at the center of the book we find K, tenderhearted, spirit glowing like a beacon
Justin Torres, author of WE THE ANIMALS -
Khashayar J. Khabushani’s debut novel – told from the perspective of an Iranian American boy whose immigrant parents are struggling to build a life in L.A. – is a brutally intimate reckoning with coming of age as a Muslim after 9/11, the confusion of navigating conflicting worlds, and the burning desire to belong
New York Magazine
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