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    Solacers
    Solacers
    Solacers
    Audiobook11 hours

    Solacers

    Written by Arion Golmakani

    Narrated by Neil Shah

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    About this audiobook

    Solacers tells the touching story of a boy's search for family life and safety following the divorce of his parents in Iran during the 1960s. The first child of a heartless father and a discarded mother is left to fend for himself on the streets of Mashhad, seeking food and shelter wherever he can. His lonely early years are an unbelievable tale of cruelty and betrayal on the part of nearly everyone who might be expected to help, save for one aunt who does her best to keep him from starving.

    But living a harsh and solitary existence has one advantage for this little boy: other than forcing him to be self-reliant, no one attempts to indoctrinate him on rural Iranian society's archaic cultural values and religious beliefs. And so he never accepts his wretched state as fate, choosing instead to dream big dreams about getting an education, having his own family, and starting a new life-possibly in the faraway land called America. He makes a plan and by the age of seventeen he boards a plane to the land of possibilities, where his dreams eventually also take flight.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMay 16, 2017
    ISBN9781515989943
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    • 5/5
      Arion (Alireza) lived in Iran far earlier than I was born and left the country before the 1979 revolution. Iran's history attests to the poor condition of the rural people, mostly thanks to the incompetent previous leaders and foreign interference in the country's affairs. Having heard about the lifestyle and conditions of the country from my grandparents who had experienced the times of Arion's, I feel him, and his story resonates with me as I, too, left the country to the US - the country that had fallen under a different government with vigorous censorship and extreme security measures. This is a story filled with real miseries of a young orphan in poor rural areas of male-dominant Iran who endures the test and trials of time and survives situations that could very well have turned wrongly. This is A heart-touching account of one's life who comes out of harsh conditions to find hope and life.
    • 5/5
      This book was won in the GoodReads.com First Read contest.



      This book is based on the author's childhood in Iran. This book is from the 1950's through the 1970's. This book is heart-wrenching. Reading about how a mother and child can not be together. How a child is forgotten and disregarded. It is about being lost, having not hope and then it turns out that this child makes sure he finds his own way.

      This book makes the reader want to cry with frustration or cry about the lost childhood. But this book turns around and gives the reader a small glimpse into something they probably know nothing about.

      While this book was a great wonderful read, I will admit to having a hard time reading it. I am glad I read the book but it just makes the reader hurt for the child in the book.

      the bunnies and I give this book 5-carrots.

    • 5/5
      A very enthralling read of the author's life growing up in Iran. There were times that I felt like I was almost there with was happening, and other times that I just wanted to read more of what was going on :)Thank you for having this in a giveaway program also and giving me a chance to win and review this copy. Thank you Arion! :)