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House of Sand and Fog

On a road crew in California, a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force under the Shah yearns to restore his family's dignity. When an attractive bungalow comes available on county auction for a fraction of its value, he sees a great opportunity for himself, his wife and children. But the house's former owner, a recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck, doesn't see it that way, nor does her lover, a married cop driven to extremes to win her love and get her house back. These are people with ordinary flaws, people just looking for a small piece of ground to stand on, driven by the same needs into inevitable conflict - a conflict in which even the reader, rooting for all of them, has no safe haven. House of Sand and Fog turns both the traditional immigrant success story and a modern love story upside down with a heartending outcome, in a masterstroke of American realism and Shakespearean consequence.

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  • "House of Sand and Fog"
  • "House of sand and fog"@it
  • "House of sand and fog"@pl

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  • "On a road crew in California, a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force under the Shah yearns to restore his family's dignity. When an attractive bungalow comes available on county auction for a fraction of its value, he sees a great opportunity for himself, his wife and children. But the house's former owner, a recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck, doesn't see it that way, nor does her lover, a married cop driven to extremes to win her love and get her house back. These are people with ordinary flaws, people just looking for a small piece of ground to stand on, driven by the same needs into inevitable conflict - a conflict in which even the reader, rooting for all of them, has no safe haven. House of Sand and Fog turns both the traditional immigrant success story and a modern love story upside down with a heartending outcome, in a masterstroke of American realism and Shakespearean consequence."@en
  • "On a road crew in California, a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force under the Shah yearns to restore his family's dignity. When an attractive bungalow comes available on county auction for a fraction of its value, he sees a great opportunity for himself, his wife, and his children. But the house's former owner, a recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck, doesn't see it that way, nor does her lover, a married cop driven to extremes to win her love and get her house back."@en
  • "On a road crew in California, a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force under the Shah yearns to restore his family's dignity. When an attractive bungalow comes available on county auction for a fraction of its value, he sees a great opportunity for himself, his wife, and his children. But the house's former owner, a recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck, doesn't see it that way, nor does her lover, a married cop driven to extremes to win her love and get her house back."
  • "When a former colonel of the Iranian Air Force and his family purchase a small California home at auction, they are faced with a great conflict as the former owner and her police officer boyfriend fight to get it back at any cost."@en
  • "In this riverting novel of almost unbeaable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously enttangled in a relentlessly esclating crisis."@en
  • "Opportunity knocks for an Iranian immigrant in California when the county offers for sale a seized house at a bargain price. It will serve as a launching pad for his real-estate business. When the county discovers it made an error, the drug-addicted woman who owned the house demands its return, but the Iranian refuses. Unfortunately for him, the woman's lover is a policeman who takes the law into his hands."
  • "Three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis."@en
  • "Kathy Nicolo is a recovering addict whose husband has left her and who is making her way in the straight world with her own cleaning business. When her house in the California hills is mistakenly seized by the county for back taxes and sold at public auction, she finds herself living out of her car and on the brink of desperation. Once a wealthy and powerful man in Iran and a colonel in the army under the Shah's rule, Behrani is now a struggling immigrant who hopes that he can sell the house for a large profit, so that he can once again provide his family with a lifestyle like the one they enjoyed in Iran. What starts out as a legal tussle soon escalates into a personal confrontation--with dire results."@en
  • "Three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis."
  • "An Oprah book club book. A mixture of calssical tragedy and suspense. Colonel Behrani wealthy man in Iran is now struggling as an immigrant."@en
  • "Kathy est expulsée par erreur de chez elle. Elle décide de se battre pour retrouver sa maison, alors qu'une famille iranienne exilée aux Etats-Unis après la chute du shah s'estime également propriétaire. La confrontation tourne au drame... Ce roman illustre l'incompréhension qui peut exister entre des Américains de cultures différentes et fait le portrait d'un pays en proie à ses névroses."
  • "Colonel Behrani is a once-wealthy Iranian immigrant who struggles for dignity while working low-wage jobs in America. Kathy Nicolo is a troubled young house cleaner striving to put her life in order. When Kathy's house is mistakenly put up for public auction--and Behrani risks the last of his family fortune to buy it--the two become enmeshed in a desperate conflict."@en
  • "Kathy gets evicted from her home for failing to pay a tax she never should have been charged to pay in the first place. The house is swiftly put up for auction and bought by a former military officer from Iran named Behrani. When legal efforts fail her, Kathy turns to a sympathetic cop who wants out of a loveless marriage and who is willing to step over legal boundaries if it might give him the fresh start he is so badly craving."
  • "A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title, that may also include a folder with miscellaneous notes, discussion questions, biographical information, and reading lists to assist book group discussion leaders."
  • "Three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Colonel Behrani, once a wealthy man in Iran, is now a struggling immigrant willing to bet everything he has to restore his family's dignity. Kathy Nicolo is a troubled young woman whose house is all she has left, and who refuses to let her hard-won stability slip away from her. Sheriff Lester Burdon, a married man who finds himself falling in love with Kathy, becomes obsessed with helping her fight for justice."@en
  • "Een Amerikaanse vrouw en een in de VS wonende voormalige kolonel uit het Iraanse leger van de sjah leveren een strijd op leven en dood om een huis."
  • "A former colonel for the Iranian Air Force believes he can create a new life for himself and his family when he buys an attractive bungalow in the California countryside, and when the cottage's former owner wants her house back, he is willing to do anything to keep it."
  • "A former colonel for the Iranian Air Force believes he can create a new life for himself and his family when he buys an attractive bungalow in the California countryside, and when the cottage's former owner wants her house back, he is willing to do anything to keep it."@en

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Feature"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Drama"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Screenplays"@en
  • "Miscellaneous fiction"
  • "Popular literature"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Love stories"

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  • "Dom z piasku i mgły"@pl
  • "Dom z piasku i mgły"
  • "Het huis in de mist"
  • "Kuća peska i magla"
  • "The house of sand and fog"
  • "To spiti tēs ammou kai tēs omichlēs"
  • "Sisler evi"
  • "Khanah'ī dar mih : sarguzasht-i yik khalabān-i Īrānī dar Āmrīkā"
  • "House of Sand and Fog"@en
  • "La maison des sables et des brumes : roman"
  • "Hiša peska in megle"@sl
  • "Khānih-ʼi shin va mih"
  • "La maison des sables et des brumes"
  • "Haus aus Sand und Nebel : [Roman]"
  • "House of sand and fog"
  • "House of sand and fog"@en
  • "Khānah-i māsah va mih"
  • "House of sand and fog : [screenplay]"
  • "House of sand and fog : [screenplay]"@en
  • "Haus aus Sand und Nebel Roman"
  • "Khanah-i bar āb"
  • "خانه ماسه و مه"
  • "La casa di sabbia e nebbia"@it
  • "La casa di sabbia e nebbia"
  • "HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG"
  • "Haus aus Sand und Nebel"
  • "Kuća od pijeska i magle"
  • "Das Haus aus Sand und Nebel"
  • "Casa de arena y niebla"
  • "Casa de arena y niebla"@es

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