Informazioni generali

Data di nascita: 1966
Sesso: female
Nazionalità: Iran (birth)
Luogo di residenza: Connecticut, USA
Organizzazioni: Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
Premi e riconoscimenti: Guggenheim Fellowship (2008)

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A Beginner's Guide to America: For the Immigrant and… di Roya Hakakian

Interesting personal narrative for the first two thirds.

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pdubya62 | 1 altra recensione | Mar 29, 2023 |

A Beginner's Guide to America for the Immigrant and… di Roya Hakakian

I really wanted to like A Beginner's Guide to America. The idea is certainly a winner - a book about the experience of a recent immigrant to America, written by a recent immigrant in the form of a guidebook.

Unfortunately, I just didn't connect with this book.

Perhaps it was because it was told in the 2nd person. "You" came to America with this or that expectation, after "you" suffered this or that experience in your homeland. In small quantities 2nd person works, but when an author writes a whole book that way there is a risk that your readers may not connect with your "you".

Maybe it's the way the author put the material together. Hakakian took her own immigrant experience, and blended it in with the experiences of other recent immigrants she interviewed into a single thread. The problem is not all the experiences blend together and without any attachment to real people it was harder to connect.

Don't get me wrong - there were parts of the book I did connect with. But overall I can't really recommend this one. Two stars ⭐⭐.… (altro)

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stevesbookstuff | 1 altra recensione | Sep 5, 2021 |

Assassins of the Turquoise Palace di Roya Hakakian

This is the story of the assassination of leading Iranian and Kurdish expatriates in Berlin by agents of the Iranian regime, and the long, slow route to a form of justice. A fascinating look at a morally corrupt regime, and its victims. Depressing for all that, because even though the regime is implicated, nothing really changes.

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Meggo | 1 altra recensione | Oct 20, 2013 |

Assassins of the Turquoise Palace di Roya Hakakian

A well-written history of an important but often overlooked moment in the history of Europe's relationship to the Iranian regime. Showing the fruits of extensive interviews, the book sometimes reads more like a novel than a history as it describes the thoughts and emotional state of some of the key characters.

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JLHeim | 1 altra recensione | Nov 28, 2011 |

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