Children of the Jacaranda Tree by Sahar Delijani

The first half of the novel tells the story of political activists imprisoned in the 1980s by the newly established Islamic regime and their children, some born inside prison, some at home forced to watch as their parents are taken away. Praised by Khaled Hosseini and named one of the top books of 2013 by The Kansas City Star, the novel has been published in 75 countries and translated into 30 languages.Ĭhildren of the Jacaranda Tree is composed of seven different narratives and told from various points of views. The advances and rights to the book were sold in 27 territories.

The potential of the story was recognized immediately when a few days after its submission to the publishing world, simultaneous auctions were taking place in the US, UK, Italy, France, Brazil, Germany and Spain. I had to learn how to write through writing.' Completed in 2012, Children of the Jacaranda Tree took three years to complete. In her words, 'the other novels were more like homework. The novel is a poignant attempt at describing the genesis of a dictatorship, how it begins, how it affects a people, and what it means to resist it.Ĭhildren of the Jacaranda Tree is Delijani's first published and fourth written novel. The novel depicts not only the lives of the victims but also those of their families and above all their children.

Partially inspired by the writer's family history, it is a story about one of the worst best kept secrets of post-revolutionary Iran: the 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners. Children of the Jacaranda Tree is the internationally acclaimed debut novel of Iranian writer Sahar Delijani.

Children of the Jacaranda Tree by Sahar Delijani