Savage Tongues (Van Der Vliet Oloomi Azareen)(Paperback)

"Oloomis novel examines trauma in a multifaceted way...facing the challenges of sustaining an identity in countries with blurred borders and marginalized peoples, where vestiges of the lost past remain embedded in the landscape." Los Angeles Review of Books"A love story of the most fevered, brutal order...Propulsive, erotic, and darkly dreamlike." VultureA new novel by PEN/Faulkner Award winner Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, "written with the intensity of early Marguerite Duras and Ferrante'sDays of Abandonment,"about a young womans search for healing in the fall-out of an affair with a much older man, a personal and political exploration of desire, power, domination, and human connection (The Millions).Written with the intensity of early Marguerite Duras and Ferrante'sDays of Abandonment, Savage Tonguesis an autobiographical novel that weaves personal and political history,exploring questions of violence, post-colonial identity, and inter-faith friendship.At seventeen, Arezu, an Iranian American teenager, travels to Andalusia in southern Spaina historically Islamic and Sephardic spaceto reconnect with her estranged father. Instead, she is left in the care of Omar, a forty-year-old Lebanese man, and drawn into a charged and catastrophic relationship that shatters her just at the cusp of adulthood.Two decades later, Arezu inherits the same apartment where her life was irrevocably altered.She returns with her best friend, Ellie,a Jewish scholar devoted to the Palestinian cause,
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