Man of My Time, Dalia Sofer
Man of My Time, Dalia Sofer
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Man of My Time

Author: Dalia Sofer

Narrator: Navid Navid

Unabridged: 11 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/14/2020

Synopsis

Set in Iran and New York City, this book tells the story of Hamid Mozaffarian, who is as alienated from himself as he is from the world around him. After decades of ambivalent work as an interrogator with the Iranian regime, Hamid travels on a diplomatic mission to New York, where he encounters his estranged family and retrieves the ashes of his father, whose dying wish was to be buried in Iran. Tucked in his pocket throughout the trip, the ashes propel him into a first-person excavationfull of mordant wit and bitter memoryof a lifetime of betrayal and prompt him to trace his own evolution from a perceptive boy in love with marbles to a man who, on seeing his own reflection, is startled to encounter a beautiful, indignant thug. As he reconnects with his brother and others living in exile, Hamid is forced to reckon with his past, with the insidious nature of violence, and with his entrenchment in a system that, for decades, ensnared him.

About Dalia Sofer

Dalia Sofer is the author of the national bestseller The Septembers of Shiraz, which won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award, was long-listed for the Orange Prize, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. It was published in sixteen countries. Sofer has received a Whiting Award, and her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Believer, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications. Born in Tehran, Iran, she lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jill on February 24, 2020

It took me a little while to warm up to this book. But once I did, I was all in; in fact, I think this book is a masterwork and a solid contender for one of my best of year. And why? Because it has every element of what makes a book worth reading: an astonishingly informed grasp of the complex politi......more

Goodreads review by luce (cry bebè's back from hiatus) on August 28, 2021

| | blog | tumblr | ko-fi | | “After nearly a decade of delirious revenge, rations, war, and death, we saw the world in shades of blood.” In Man of My Time Dalia Sofer makes a fascinating and unsettling inquiry into morality. The novel is centred on and narrated by Hamid Mozaffarian. When Hamid, a......more

Goodreads review by Titi on November 08, 2021

Totul despre Persia/Iran mă atrage asemenea moliei de către lampă. Uneori apropierea asta se lasă cu aripile pârjolite. Ambiguitatea cu care am citit această carte, frumos scrisă, Dalia Sofer are vână de poet, provine din raportarea mea la antieroul poveștii, Hamid Mozafarrian. Cumva nu l-am simțit......more

Goodreads review by Azita on December 04, 2020

Too many mistakes in how post-revolutionary Iran and Iranians are presented. There’s also a weakness in characterization that show itself most prominently in Hamid. Compare his interrogation scenes with Cromwell’s in Wolf Hall. Both are designed to show the reader that the interrogators are not whol......more

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