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The last days of Café Leila a novel

"When Noor returns to her native Iran for the first time in thirty years, with her very American daughter, Lily, so much about her homeland is different. But Café Leila--the restaurant Noor's family has run for three generations--hasn't changed. A neighborhood café in Tehran is at the center of th...

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Main Author: Bijan, Donia (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
Fathers > Death > Fiction.
Iranian American women > Fiction.
Tehran (Iran) > Fiction.
Iran > Emigration and immigration > Fiction.
Restaurants > Fiction.
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Summary:"When Noor returns to her native Iran for the first time in thirty years, with her very American daughter, Lily, so much about her homeland is different. But Café Leila--the restaurant Noor's family has run for three generations--hasn't changed. A neighborhood café in Tehran is at the center of this powerful and transporting story of love, family, friendship, and homecoming told against the backdrop of Iran's rich, yet tragic, history"--
Item Description:"Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited."
Physical Description:300 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:9781616208035
1616208031
Author Notes:Donia Bijan is the author of the novel The Last Days of Café Leila and the memoir Maman's Homesick Pie . She graduated from UC Berkeley and Le Cordon Bleu. After presiding over many of San Francisco's acclaimed restaurants and earning awards for her French-inspired cuisine, in 1994 she opened her own restaurant, L'amie Donia, in Palo Alto. Since closing her restaurant, she divides her days between teaching and writing.

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