I Hid My Voice

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) *
Deserves to make a splash… 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 *

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.

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