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In Case of Emergency

von: Mahsa Mohebali
25,42 €
Verlag:	The Feminist Press at Cuny
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	30.11.2021
ISBN/EAN:	9781952177873
Sprache:	englisch

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In this prize-winning Iranian novel, a spoiled and foul-mouthed young woman looks to get high while her family and city fall to pieces.What do you do when the world is falling apart and youre in withdrawal?Disillusioned, wealthy, and addicted to opium, Shadi wakes up one day to apocalyptic earthquakes and a dangerously low stash. Outside, Tehran is crumbling: yuppies flee in bumper-to-bumper traffic as skaters and pretty boys rise up to claim the city as theirs. Cross-dressed to evade hijab laws, Shadi flits between her dysfunctional family and depressed friendsall in search of her next fix.Mahsa Mohebali's groundbreaking novel about Iranian counterculture is a satirical portrait of the disaster that is contemporary life.Weaving together gritty vernacular and cinematic prose,In Case of Emergencytakes a darkly humorous, scathing look at the authoritarian state,global capitalism, and the gender binary.