Nahid Rachlin

PERSIAN GIRLS (Penguin)
AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK(RELEASED ON JAN.2008-Penguin) REVIEW: NPR: The World, selected as ONE OF THE BEST FOUR BOOKS OF 2006, by Christopher Merrill, Director of Iowa International Writing program: "If you want to know what it was like to grow up in Iran this is the book to read. Rachlin, the author of five previous works of fiction, including the much acclaimed Foreigner, begins her story at the age of nine, when she was taken away from the only mother she had ever known—her aunt, as it happens—and returned to a family in which the prospects of her becoming a writer were, at best, dim. But her portrait of the artist in an Islamic country on the verge of dramatic change is filled with light."

JUMPING OVER FIRE
"If, as Aristotle reminds us, we are our desire, then who are we if the object of our desire is forbidden? What becomes of us if we are born in one world yet long for another? These are just two of the complex and difficult questions Nahid Rachlin explores and ultimately illuminates in this brave, engrossing, and timely novel. I recommend it highly!"--Andre (Dubus III),author of House of Sand and Fog, and In the Bedroom

FOREIGNER
"... a rare intimate look at Iranians who are poorer and less educated... I have read (this book) four times by now, and each time I have discovered new layers in it. The voice is cool and pure. Bleak is the right word, if you will understand that bleakness can have a startling beauty."

MARRIED TO A STRANGER

THE HEART'S DESIRE

VEILS (Short Story Collection)

FORGET ME (Complete Story)
A part of a short story collection I am putting together.