The Age of Orphans

Laleh Khadivi

Heavily derived from the oral tradition of Kurdish culture, Khadivi’s debut novel uses several first person narrators to tell the turbulent life story of a Kurdish boy.

In similar vein to the recent novels from this part of the world like The Kite Runner, The Age of Orphans seems to be part of an incipient genre where oral traditions are updated and rendered through the contemporary novel.