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During the reign of the Queen of Persia a novel

Joan Chase's subtle story of three generations of women negotiating lifetimes of "joy and ruin" deserves its place alongside such achievements as Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine. The Queen of Persia is in fact Gram, who presides over an Ohio farmhouse teeming with daughters, granddaughters, and the occasional son-in-law. For the youngest generation, the four girls who together narrate the novel, the farm is a kind of Eden, at once life-giving and the locus of terrible discoveries about desire and loss. The girls bicker and scrap, whisper secrets at bedtime, and above all watch as their mothers draft templates of womanhood that they will come to either reject or embrace. Ingeniously orchestrated in overlapping, thematic narratives, the story of Gram, her five daughters, and her grandchildren reveals itself through the accumulation of emotional truths, reaching its heights in the decline of Grace, whose eventual death from cancer is a loss felt throughout the book. Set in the 1950s and '60s, During the Reign of the Queen of Persia is deeply rooted in its particular time and place, as the local, rural, and hardscrabble world the girls are born into remakes itself into a materially rich suburb, indistinguishable from so many others.

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  • "Une "matriarche" autoritaire et octogénaire veille sur ses cinq filles, avec l'aide d'un oncle riche sans trop compter sur le grand-père ivrogne, à la manière qu'indique le titre. Un premier roman riche et évocateur."
  • "Op een boerderij in Ohio bepalen drie generaties van vrouwen het leven."
  • "Joan Chase's subtle story of three generations of women negotiating lifetimes of "joy and ruin" deserves its place alongside such achievements as Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine. The Queen of Persia is in fact Gram, who presides over an Ohio farmhouse teeming with daughters, granddaughters, and the occasional son-in-law. For the youngest generation, the four girls who together narrate the novel, the farm is a kind of Eden, at once life-giving and the locus of terrible discoveries about desire and loss. The girls bicker and scrap, whisper secrets at bedtime, and above all watch as their mothers draft templates of womanhood that they will come to either reject or embrace. Ingeniously orchestrated in overlapping, thematic narratives, the story of Gram, her five daughters, and her grandchildren reveals itself through the accumulation of emotional truths, reaching its heights in the decline of Grace, whose eventual death from cancer is a loss felt throughout the book. Set in the 1950s and '60s, During the Reign of the Queen of Persia is deeply rooted in its particular time and place, as the local, rural, and hardscrabble world the girls are born into remakes itself into a materially rich suburb, indistinguishable from so many others."@en
  • ""The Queen of Persia is not an exotic figure but a fierce Ohio farmwife who presides over a household of daughters and granddaughters. A powerful story about family ties and tensions...." -- Back cover."
  • "The novel that is sweeping the country. A beautiful story of 20th-century womanhood, of Gram, the Queen of Persia herself, who rules a house where five daughters and four granddaughters spin out the tragedies and triumphs of rural life in the 1950's."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"

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  • "During the reign of the Queen of Persia a novel"@en
  • "En los tiempos de la reina de Persia"@es
  • "En los tiempos de la reina de Persia"
  • "Das Mädchenhaus : roman"
  • "Gedurende het bewind van de Koningin van Perzië : roman"
  • "During the reign of the queen of Persia"
  • "Das Mädchenhaus : Roman"
  • "During the Reign of the Queen of Persia"@en
  • "During the reign of the Queen of Persia"@en
  • "During the reign of the Queen of Persia"
  • "Das Mädchenhaus Roman"
  • "During the reign of the Queen of Persi : a novel"
  • "During the reign of the Queen of Persia : a novel"@en
  • "During the reign of the Queen of Persia : a novel"
  • "Sous le règne de la reine de Perse : roman"

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