"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. "
In Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde’s What We Owe, translated from the Swedish by Elizabeth Jane Clark Wessel and forthcoming with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a fifty-year-old Iranian refugee living in Sweden revisits the choices of her past after discovering she has only six months to live.
The day I was born, I was a disappointment. I was the sixth girl in a family with no sons. I was not what my parents had hoped for. But I wasn’t the biggest disappointment. When Noora was...
Where, and by whom writing was first developed remains unknown, but scholars place the beginning of writing at 6,000