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FINALIST - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION WINNER OF THE ALBERTINE PRIZE - LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD - LE PRIX DU ROMAN NEWS STYLE PRIZE - 2016 LIRE BEST DEBUT NOVEL - LA PORTE DORÉE PRIZE A GLOBE & MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2018 ""A story of disorientation--national, familial and sexual--and finding oneself.""--The Globe and Mail ★ ""Riveting . . . Djavadi is an immensely gifted storyteller.""--Booklist (starred review) ★ ""Authentic, ambitious, richly layered, and very readable . . . every scene rings true.""--Kirkus Reviews ""Momentous . . . Disoriental convincingly and powerfully explores the enormous weight of one's family and culture on individual identity.""--Publishers Weekly ""By turns heartbreaking and humorous . . . Djavadi vividly captures the pain of exile with passion and heart.""--Saleem Haddad, author of Guapa ""A tour de force of storytelling . . . Perfectly blends historical fact with contemporary themes.""--Library Journal ""[Djavadi] masterfully takes her reader through multiple parallel journeys in time and space . . . Her prose is rich, deep, lyrical, with a cinematographic quality.""--Los Angeles Review of Books

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Négar Djavadi was born in Iran in 1969 to a family of intellectuals opposed to the regimes both of the Shah, then of Khomeini. She arrived in France at the age of eleven, having crossed the mountains of Kurdistan on horseback with her mother and sister. She is a screenwriter and lives in Paris. Disoriental is her first novel. Tina Kover's translations for Europa Editions include Anne Berest's bestselling novel The Postcard, Antoine Compagnon's A Summer with Montaigne, Catherine Bardon's The Ogre's Daughter, and Mahir Guven's Older Brother, which won the Prix de Goncourt for best debut novel in 2018 and was a finalist for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize in 2020.

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