New Internationalist, July 1st, 2000
Persian Brides by Dorit Rabinyan translated by Yael Lotan (Canongate, ISBN 0 86241 851 8) Israeli author Dorit Rabinyan's tragi-comic novel, Persian Brides, is a strikingly mature and polished debut. Set at the turn of the century in the Jewish quarter of the fictional Persian village of Omerijan, the story spans two days in the lives of Flora Ratoyan and her 11-year-old cousin Nazie. Flora is 15, heavily pregnant and seemingly forgotten by her absent husband. Nazie, betrothed to Flora's brother, Moussa, is anxiously awaiting the onset of menstruation, a legal requirement for the wedding to ...
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