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The Persians

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025

'Enormously entertaining'

THE TIMES

'The word-of-mouth breakout'

STYLIST

'As funny as it is moving'

GUARDIAN

'A joy of a debut' DAVID MITCHELL

'Glorious' SARAH WINMAN

A stunning debut novel following five women from three generations of a once eminent Iranian family as their lives are turned upside down

The Valiat family are in crisis. Elizabeth, the regal matriarch, remained in Tehran despite the revolution and only has Niaz, her Islamic law-breaking granddaughter for company. In America, Elizabeth’ s daughters, the flamboyantly high-flying Shirin and frustrated housewife Seema, are wondering if their new lives there are all they had hoped for. Lastly, there’s the second granddaughter, Bita, a disillusioned law student trying to find deeper meaning by giving away her worldly belongings.

When an annual vacation in Aspen goes wildly awry and Shirin ends up being bailed out of jail, gossip about the family spreads like wildfire. Soon, Shirin sets out to restore the family name to its former glory. But what does that mean in a country where the Valiats never mattered to anyone? And, will reputation be enough to make them a family again?

The Persians is an irresistible portrait of a unique family in turmoil that explores timeless questions of love, money, art and fulfilment. Here is their past, their present and a possible new future for them all.

A most anticipated novel of 2025 in Stylist, BBC and iNews.

‘Funny, gutsy and confidently written … an outstanding debut’ DIANA EVANS, 2025 Women’s Prize Judge

'Mesmerising' MONICA ALI

'Riotous … will have you hooked'

STYLIST

‘A darkly funny read about mothers and daughters, love and loss and being true to yourself’

RED

'As exuberant as it is sharp’

iNEWS

'A sweeping and irreverent tale'

BBC

‘Gloriously engrossing’ TASH AW

‘Exuberant, comic, perceptive’ AMINA CAIN

'A very brilliant, very special book' JESSICA STANLEY


Author:

  • Sanam Mahloudji

Narrators:

  • Mozhan Navabi
  • Lanna Joffrey
  • Nikki Massoud
  • Donia Bijan

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 13 h 11 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Fiction
  • Contemporary fiction
  • Feel-good and romance
  • Feel-good and chick lit

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    Sanam Mahloudji was born in Tehran and grew up in Los Angeles after leaving Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Her fiction has won a Pushcart Prize and appears in McSweeney’s , the , the , and elsewhere. She was nominated for a 2018 PEN/Robert J Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers for her first published story.

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