NoI don’t know if by the time this column hits newsstands the conflict between the United States and Iran will have ended. We hope so but unfortunately we are certain of one thing: the much-vaunted regime change in Iran which we were led to believe was one of the main reasons for this attack did not happen. Indeed – if it is possible – the situation for the opponents has even worsened.
Unfortunately, little news arrives unfiltered by various propaganda and it is increasingly difficult to know what is really happening in that wonderful country that a theocratic dictatorship has brought to its knees and that Trump considers a pile of stones without history.
Once again it is literature that brings us hope together with the possibility of learning more about a thousand-year-old civilization, telling us about the secret lives of its inhabitants through the story of a courageous girl who wants to resist and is convinced that the most important revolution to face is the one within us.
Serena Dandini (photo by Gianmarco Chieregato).
Her name is Farah and she is the protagonist of The Forgotten House (Garzanti), the new novel by Pegah Moshir Poura young Iranian writer who has lived in Italy since she was nine years old, who fled with her parents who wanted to ensure a better future for her and her little brother.
“The Forgotten House” by Pegah Moshir Pour (Garzanti).
Today, Pegah is a writer, a rights activist, and a powerful voice chronicling the suffering of Iranians while shedding a poetic light on a country and its people about which we know very little. Farah, despite experiencing the dilemma of an entire generation who would like to leave her homeland torn apart by conflicts, decides to stay and reconnect the threads of her roots by chasing a family mystery that will lead her to discover that she possesses more courage than she imagined.
The plot of the book is gripping and gives us pleasure a fresco of young Iranians who, despite everything, have decided not to give up on their dreams and are fighting for a different future as we all should continue to do without giving in to the global pessimism that risks taking away all humanity.
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