The latest addition to my website is Négar Djavadi’s Désorientale (Disoriental. The novel is narrated by Kimiâ, an Iranian bisexual living in Paris and, when we first meet her, trying medically assisted reproduction. She tells us about that but, in between, the fill and complex story of her extended family, who were in opposition both to the Shah Reza and his successor Ruhollah Khomeini and, by extension, to the British and Americans who supported the Shah. We learn of their history – Kimiâ’s great-grandfather had a massive harem- and the problems her father faced in his opposition to both regimes. Eventually the family flee to France, a long, arduous and colourful journey. Even in France the family is not safe as Iranian hit squads operate all over Europe. Kimiâ, meanwhile goes her own way, both professionally (music) and romantically (in theory homosexuality does not exist in Iran). It is a very colourful and complex novel and, once you get an idea of what is going on, very well told.