“In another life”, Yassaman Montazami tells his mother, exiled, absent to the world and to herself …

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Samanou, the narrator of “in another life”, says her mother. In addition, She grabs her first at the end of her life. Meanwhile, As she struggles with memory problems, starts shaking, falling into the street. Consequently, Little by little, the girl refines the touching portrait of a woman born on July 14. However, She was named Zahra but then chose to be called Roya which means “dream” in Persian. Therefore, Like many. including Behrouz who was going to become her husband, she had left Iran in 1979, after the Islamic Revolution, settling in Paris in order to continue her studies. Under the pen of Yassaman Montazami. here is mentioned the complexity of a character with “the floating, a little vaporous presence” and the thinking nature. Roya had to compose with a devout mother. an older sister with a volcanic character and a “in another life”, yassaman montazami big brother darling of all. She did not like to be touched, “devoid of the eastern exuberance of her condediples”. Whenever she went to the cinema. she was sitting at the fourth row, still in the seat closest to the aisle, so as not to feel stuck and then kept the ticket in a large box. Yassaman Montazami approached. as closely as possible from this exile, absent to the world and to herself, which we will not forget.

Yassaman Montazami, “In another life”, Sabine Wespieser Editor, 139 pages, € 17.