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Dalia Sofer

Biography

Dalia Sofer

Dalia Sofer is the author of the national bestseller THE SEPTEMBERS OF SHIRAZ, winner of the PEN/Robert Bingham Prize, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, long-listed for the Orange Prize, and a New York Times Notable Book. It was published in 16 countries. Sofer is a recipient of a Whiting Award, and her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Believer, the Los Angeles Review of Books and elsewhere. She was born in Tehran, Iran, and moved to the United States with her family as a child.

Dalia Sofer

Books by Dalia Sofer

Man of My Time
by Dalia Sofer - Fiction

Set in Iran and New York City, MAN OF MY TIME 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. 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.