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Redolent with the scent of lilac and oleander blossoms, and bursting with the flavors of quinces and overripe plums, Strand of a Thousand Pearls is the story of the imagined and actual marriages of the Azizyan girls, their years of yearning, restless and impatient, and the truth of their engagements, miles away from the enchanted realm and imaginary heroes of their dreams.
Six years ago, Dorit Rabinyan burst onto the scene with Persian Brides, a novel that established her as a writer of incandescent spirit with a gift for spinning wry, magical tales about the vagaries of love and marriage. In Strand of a Thousand Pearls, she has given us a bitter-sweet fable about desires fulfilled and denied—about married love and carnal love, about mother's love and the kind of love that vanishes one night without warning, like an evaporated dream.
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Joseph Simonetti
reviewed Strand of a Thousand Pearls on February 18, 2011
Strand of a Thousand Pearls
This was a really good fiction novel, about a Persian family living in Israel. It was about being a mom, and letting go of the outcome regarding what children choose to be and do when they grow up.
Page 245 - Daugher to Mother - "Why do you take all our troubles into your heart? Why don't you look after yourself, instead of crying for us all day and all night? Why don't you take better care of your heart, our Mama?"
"Why do you love us so much? I mean, love us too much, just like that, witout limit, without ever drawing a line and saying, That's it, no more! You should be thinking, like, This is me. That's my body. And this is where my flesh ends and there's some skin on it. Then there's a bit of space, all right? Okay, so in this space I'm going to put all my children't troubles, right here! Between you, Mama, and myself, between you and Sofia, you and Maurice, Lizzie, even Matti. I mean, you don't need to cry and cry the whole time. Each on has his own mess and his own shit, so let each one cry for himself. By himself. 'Cause those are our pains, Mama, not yours, so stop now!
Page 247 - "You were just a child. What did you know about life, anyway? You gave us your soul. But look now, your belly is empty and we're big, thank God. Not children anymore. That you gave birth to us means that...it means that you gave us life, but you gave t to us to live, didn't you?"
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