Aria cover art

Aria

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Aria

By: Nazanine Hozar
Narrated by: Neeky Dalir
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

About this listen

Brought to you by Penguin.

In Iran, 1953, a driver named Behrouz discovers an abandoned baby in an alleyway. When he adopts her, naming her Aria, he has no idea how profoundly this fiery, blue-eyed orphan will shape his future.

As she grows, Aria is torn between the three women fated to mother her: the wife of Behrouz, who beats her; the wealthy widow Fereshteh, who offers her refuge but cannot offer her love, and the impoverished Mehri, whose secrets will shatter everything Aria thought she knew about her life.

Meanwhile, the winds of change are stirring in Tehran. Rumours are spreading of a passionate religious exile in Paris called Khomeini, who seems to offer a new future for the country. In the midst of this tumult, Aria falls in love with an Armenian boy caught on the wrong side of the revolution. And before long she will be swept up in an uprising which will change the destiny of the land - and its people - forever.

©2020 Nazanine Hozar (P)2020 Penguin Audio Coming of Age Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Political Middle East Iran

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Olive Kitteridge cover art
If I Had Two Lives cover art
The Opium Prince cover art
The Water Thief cover art
The Girl Who Escaped cover art
Ishmael's Oranges cover art
To Throw Away Unopened cover art
A Cup of Friendship cover art
The Mountains Sing cover art
The Rainbow cover art
The Watchmaker of Dachau cover art
All the Courage We Have Found cover art
All stars
Most relevant
So badly written, excessive descriptions, gaps in narrative, and the readers voice was so wrong and not the emotive, soft way actual Iranians speak.

Disappointing

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Some have said the performance is flat. Much of the book is plot narration, and to spring into character suddenly would sound absurd I think. I wonder if the author tried to cram too much of Teheran's variety into one novel (followers of three religions; at least three political strands; those unconvinced by any; converts (real faith, convenience), Farsi and

A straightforward story with complicated underpinnings

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.