{"product_id":"9781608191581","title":"The Age of Orphans: A Novel","description":"Told with an evocative richness of language that recalls Michael Ondaatje or Anita Desai, the story of Reza Khourdi is that of the 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century everyman, cast out from the clan in the name of nation, progress and modernity who cannot help but leave behind a shadow that yearns for the impossible dreams of love, land and home. \u003cbr\u003eBefore following his father into battle, he had been like any other Kurdish boy: in love with his Maman, fascinated by birds and the rugged Zagros mountains, dutiful to his stern and powerful Baba. But after he becomes orphaned in a massacre by the armies of Iran's new Shah, Reza Pahlavi I.; he is taken in by the very army that has killed his parents, re-named Reza Khourdi, and indoctrinated into the modern, seductive ways of the newly minted nation, careful to hide his Kurdish origins with every step. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Age of Orphans\u003c\/i\u003e follows Reza on his meteoric rise in ranks, his marriage to a proud Tehrani woman and his eventual deployment, as Capitan, back to the Zagros Mountains and the ever-defiant Kurds. Here Reza is responsible for policing, and sometimes killing, his own people, and it is here that his carefully crafted persona begins to fissure and crack.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47133971153136,"sku":"9781608191581","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781608191581_p0.jpg?v=1763838195","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781608191581","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}