Publishers Notes
Ten-year-old Sohrab Vessali and his parents
escape the violence of Iran’s Islamic Revolution to live in America. As
the years pass and anti-Iranian sentiment soars, the bullying and
taunting at school leave Sohrab confused and aimless. He becomes
alienated from his domineering father, a former general in the Shah’s
army determined to initiate a counterrevolution. But Sohrab’s wounds of
alienation melt away when his father secretly returns to Iran and
disappears. Have the mullahs imprisoned or executed him? Sohrab is
obsessed to discover his father’s fate, hoping he is still alive so that
they can undo the hurts of their turbulent past. He looks to Emily
Clarke, an Iranian-born nurse who places her love and faith in him and
helps him in the perilous quest.