CALL ME ZEBRA

After the death of her father, an exiled Iranian man of letters, the bookish twenty-two-year-old Zebra finds herself alone in New Yo rk and decides to retrace the steps of her traumatic flight with her family from their homeland in the 1980s, hoping that in the pro cess she will be inspired to write a major manifesto on literature. Her first stop is Barcelona, where she meets the Italian Ludo, w ho becomes her lover, intellectual sparring partner and travelling companion in her picaresque meanderings around Catalonia. A natur al-born ...[Read more]