Editorial advance: 'Knots between the fingers', by Leila Kasra

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Editorial advance: 'Knots between the fingers', by Leila Kasra

Next week, Leila Kasra's debut novel (Tehran, 1976), Knots Between the Fingers, will hit bookstores. The starting point is as follows: Anais receives a letter that will mark her existence: she is being expelled from the country. The imminent forced return to Iran shakes up all her imagined futures. To avoid this, she accepts the unusual proposal of a stranger, Anselm, who offers her three candidates for a marriage of convenience. Thus begins and…