Parinoush Saniee is a sociologist and psychologist. She was formerly manager of the research department at the Supreme Coordination Council for Technical and Vocational Education in Iran. Her first novel, The Book of Fate, won the Boccaccio Prize in Italy, Euskadi de Plata Prize in the Basque Country, and was selected as one of World Literature Today's 75 Notable Translations of 2013. I Hid My Voice is her second novel that has been translated into English.
A fictive tale of an Iranian boy who is mute, it is also the story
of women in Iran. Powerful, moving, and profoundly sad, it's a
glimpse into a deeply foreign culture
*Ottawa Magazine*
The author's background can be sensed at every turn of the page,
Saniee skilfully integrates concepts and theories about the
psychology of the child and demonstrates how easy it is to cause,
as parents, irremediable damages to a child, but also how easy it
is not to cause them . . . it's a word of warning. Parinoush Saniee
masters the art
*The Cultural Supplement (Romania)*
Gripping . . . an agonising childhood in the Iran of the
ayatollahs, with its revolutionary committees and moral police
always lurking
*Stavanger Aftenblad (Norway)*
A richly written novel with which Parinoush Saniee digs into the
social texture of her country, Iran, and which, while telling the
story of the struggles of a boy, portrays the life of women. Tight
dialogue and a protagonist who becomes the symbol of hope in a
better world
*La Repubblica (Italy)*
A deeply moving book
*Dagbladet (Norway)*
A new literary sensation. A child's untold words become a scream
against heartlessness and indifference
*Panorama (Italy)*
A beautiful metaphor of the censorship that dominates her
country
*Culturas (Spain)*
Finally, away from the roar and blare of heavily-hyped new
publications, we find a low-key release which may well cause a
ripple but deserves to make a splash. I Hid My Voice by the Iranian
novelist Parinoush Saniee is a novel based on fact about a boy who
couldn't speak until the age of seven. Now twenty, Shahaab looks
back on his life and shares his ordeal. He is mocked by friends,
shunned by his father and understood only by his grandmother who
gradually helps him to find his voice again. Saniee's book shines a
light on one child's helplessness and, by extension, everyday
Iranians' inability to speak out. It is also proof that a book
doesn't have to be a big-name blockbuster to be an immensely
satisfying summer read
*The National*
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