Refuge: A Novel by Dina Nayeri

Author:Dina Nayeri [Nayeri, Dina]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2017-07-11T00:00:00+00:00

Subject: DOUBAI? YES? PACKAGE?

Niloojoon, yek package barat ferestadam, gerefti? What about Doubai? dad

(Niloojoon, I sent you a package, did you get it? What about Dubai? dad)

She moves the message out of sight. Because if tonight has taught her one lesson, it is this: Baba’s matchless spirit wouldn’t survive the refugee life, and she doesn’t want to tempt or confuse him by relenting to another visit. Would she send an innocent like Gui (however arrogant) into the bowels of Green Movement Tehran to be singled out and arrested? In the same way, Baba doesn’t belong here, his bare feet, cradled for decades by warm grasses, soft Ardestooni riverbanks, and silky rugs, landing suddenly on this chilly, inhospitable soil. In exile, Baba’s feral laugh would die in his throat. His sour cherry pockets would dry up. He would forget the boyish clapping of his heart, as Mam’mad and Karim have done. As Niloo did, long ago.

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