Considering Love and Marriage: Looking Back on "Persian Brides"

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When she was only 21 years old, Israeli bestselling author Dorit Rabinyan wrote her acclaimed novel, Persian Brides, which takes her readers into a fable of bittersweet desires—fulfilled and denied. Now, 25 years later, Rabinyan looks back on her youth, and on the conscious and unconscious powers that informed her earlier work.

Dorit Rabinyan was born in Israel to an Iranian-Jewish family. She is the recipient Itzhak Vinner Prize, the ACUM Award, The Prime Minister’s Prize and the Jewish Wingate Quarterly Award (London). Her first two novels Persian Brides and A Strand of a Thousand Pearls were both international best sellers and translated into fifteen languages. In 2014 Rabinyan published her third novel, All The Rivers, an immediate best seller in Israel. Named one of the ten best books of the year by Ha’aretz newspaper the novel was also awarded the prestigious Bernstein Award for Literature.

Presented with support from the Jewish Federation’s Cleveland Israel Arts Connection.

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