Review House Of Sand And Fog Assembled By Andre Dubus III Accessible As EPub

House of Sand and Fog was a book that I had high expectations for, The reviews for this book have been above average, and which I didn't find out until after I read it was chosen for Oprah's Book Club, While I typically act high brow towards anything that is touted by the O, she has chosen to like some classics that I have, 'sitelinkOn the Road' being one of them.
Though I don't know how the typical Oprah watcher could really get in to this, . . that is not the point,

Anyways, back to Dubas'

book, I did appreciate his use of the Iranian colonel, a troubled man from a violent regime who is not mentally mature enough to see his own failings, Dubas' shaping of this character is actually poetic, though frustrating for a reader who learns that this negligence of responsibility is realistically indefeatable in people who have committed human rights horrors.
Behrani is never a hero to the reader, or to me, but if weighed against Kathy Nicolo, becomes the moral winner,

I was not at once convinced by Kathy, Her character is so unchanging, so immature, unable to learn from mistake after mistake that you can not like her, But how can she not learn Behrani shows growth throughout the novel, If anything, Kathy shows a degeneration, I do appreciate the moments of internal struggle she shows, but it is hardly enough to redeem her,

I don't think Dumas took much of a leap with the character development, or the plot development, From the rave reviews I've heard of this book, I was expecting much better, To echo a post I read on GoodReads, this is the equivalent of a Beach Read that doesn't need to be brought to the beach, Little thought needed, easy to flip through, doesn't affect reader, Blah. Rating:.of five

The Publisher Says: On a road crew in California, a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force sees a way to restore his family's dignity in an attractive bungalow available on county auction.
But the house's owner, a recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck, will fight for the one thing she has left, And her lover, a married cop, will be driven to extremes to win her love, In this masterpiece of American realism and Shakespearean consequence, Andre Dubus III's unforgettable characters careen toward inevitable conflict, their tragedy painting a shockingly true picture of the country we live in today.


My : Behrani, An exiled colonel in the Shah's army, Kathy. A fuckedup druggie living off her inheritance, Lester. A major idiot whose lawenforcement career is his last best shot at staying off welfare,

Not one of these people will leave this book better than they entered it, Kathy's only home is the one she inherited, and the county says it's not hers anymore because she hasn't paid the taxes, She has, though. She's completely unable to function in the world because she's hazed on drugs for so long that even when she's clean she can't think straight, That means she can't figure out how to prove she has complied with the law,

Behrani can't get an American life going, He has savings one hesitates to imagine where the money came from originally that barely keep him afloat, and jobs that demean him but are all a man with no skills except being an Army officer can get.
But his son's college money is sufficient to buy a distressed property at auction, Kathy's home, as it turns out, He plans to renovate and flip it, using this as a steppingstone to American Dreamlevel prosperity,

Lester comes in as the deputy assigned to be sure Kathy gets out of the home that's no longer hers, Love at first sight! Lameo Lester and Loser Kathy, . . surely the white trash Romeo and Juliet!

Pretty much,

Dubus drags us through the legal system as the parties battle out the rights and wrongs of the case, No one here is a good person, just a greedy selfish prick who deserves what, in the end, is meted out to them by the author's just and pitiless exercise of karmic debt collection.


NOT an uplifting book, My withers were wrung about every twenty pages, and I took frequent breaks in order to console myself with excessive liquor consumption and sordid sexual escapades,

I love a book that brings out the best in me,

There's a scene where Lameo Lester gets his firstever BJ from Loser Kathy, which Dubus goes into in a bizarrely flat and affectless way that completely desxualizes the act, makes it a symptom of a pathology and not an erotic or intimate or even sexy development.
It's just part of the sickness pervading these broken, unfixable people's existences,

Did you get that A man wrote about the thing most men want more than food and only slightly less than air, and made it unappealing,

Dubus is a master of his craft, He is an artist. He can do anything he wants with words to make them dance in the reader's head to HIS tune, screw whatever you were expecting, reader! He can fashion a story that, in its outlines, sounds juicy and ripe with conflict, and make it a sharp object that will deflate whatever happy illusions were still in your head about yourself and this Murrikin Dream we're supposed to be having, reader!

And that is why you should read this book.
I read another review on here before I read the book, and the person said that the book was "boring" because this was just two people fighting over a "house.
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Actually, it's much more than that, and I thought the house served as a symbol for each person involved, This story gave the reader an inside look into an immigrant family, showing that they are "just like us," fighting for a place in this sometimes disgusting country, The house for Mr. Behrani served as a symbol of "making it" in America, He was working two jobs but lying to his family about the type of work he was doing, He had come from a place where he had been considered a high rank, and I think he felt that he was failing his family and this house was his chance to make things better.
For Kathy, I thought the house was the only stable thing in her life her husband had left her, she fell back into drinking, etc, Although she kept saying it was her dad's house and he had left it to her and her brother, I think she was more worried about her brother seeing her as the failure he'd always seen her as.


The intensity, passion, and chemistry of Les and Kathy's relationship was there for me from the paragraph they met and carried through to the very last page.
I couldn't quite figure out over what time span this book took place but it wasn't a very long period of time, Was it like a week or a little more

I had no idea that the book was going to take the turn that it did, At first I was upset about it, but then I realized it was the only way it could end, No one got the house, No one had a happy ending, I was left with a few questions, but they probably couldn't have been answered anyway, On a road crew in California, a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force sees a way to restore his family's dignity in an attractive bungalow available on county auction.
But the house's owner, a recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck, will fight for the one thing she has left, And her lover, a married cop, will be driven to extremes to win her love, In this masterpiece of American realism and Shakespearean consequence, Andre Dubus III's unforgettable characters careen toward inevitable conflict, their tragedy painting a shockingly true picture of the country we live in today.
I definitely like sitelinkHouse of Sand and Fog and I am glad to have read it, but,

The book is set in the earlys, It focuses on three charactersan Iranian immigrant by the name of Massoud Amir Behrani, a wealthy, a highstanding Colonel in the Iranian Airforce under the Shah until his downfall, Kathy Nicolo, a reformed drug addict clearly still struggling with the demons of her addiction and the recent departure of a lover, and finally, Deputy Sheriff Lester Burdon, equally messed up and having conjugal problems of his own.
Kathy and her brother have inherited a bungalow in the San Mateo County in the Bay area of San Francisco, Due to a mixup concerning back taxes, the county has erroneously auctioned off Kathys bungalow to guess whothe Iranian, Who will get the property This is the central focus of the book,

The book excels in showing readers how different characters are thinking, The reader is put in the dilemma of wanting both Kathy and the Behrani family to win possession of the property, You feel for both. You understand their respective points of view, Massoud, his wife and his youngest child, all three are perceptively drawn,

What has given me trouble are the actions taken by Massoud, Kathy and Lester to resolve the dispute, Their actions are too extreme, Alternate solutions seem more realistic, more reasonable to me, Yet my solutions would result in a less dramatic story, In my view, the conclusion becomes too cinematic, In fact, in, the book was turned into a popular American drama film starring Ben Kingsley, Jennifer Connelly, Ron Eldard and Shohreh Aghdashloo, The last played Massouds wife, The film was nominated for three Academy Awards,

Andre Dubus III, the author, and his wife, Fontaine Dollas Dubus, narrate the audiobook, He narrates the sections when we are in the heads of Massoud and Lester, She narrates the parts revealing the thoughts of Kathy and Massouds wife, I preferred Fontaines narration over Andres, Hers feels more spontaneous, more natural than his, but both are easy to follow, To my ears, Andre seems to know Persian, The narration is good, so I am giving it three,




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House of Sand and Fog is anovel by Andre Dubus III.
It was selected for Oprah's Book Club in, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, and was adapted into thefilm, House of Sand and Fog.


The novel begins by introducing Massoud Behrani, a former colonel exiled from Iran after the Iranian Revolution, Because his background is military rather than professional, he has not been able to establish a career in the US and works as a trash collector and convenience store clerk.
With savings, he pays the rent on an expensive apartment for his family and for an elegant wedding for his daughter, and his fellow, more successful Iranian exiles do not know that he holds lowskilled jobs.


Meanwhile, Kathy Nicolo, a former drug addict who is still recovering from her husband abruptly leaving her, has been evicted from her home, long owned by her family, because of unpaid taxes the county wrongfully claimed she owed.
When the house is placed for auction, Behrani seizes the opportunity and purchases it, He bets his son's entire college fund, planning to renovate the house and then resell it for much more than he originally paid as a first step on the way to establishing himself in realestate investment.
He moves his family from their apartment into the house, Meanwhile, when Kathy moves out, she meets Deputy Lester Burdon, They go through the system, hiring a lawyer to fight Kathy's wrongful eviction, but although the County admits the error, Behrani insists that he will not return the house unless he's paid what it's worth, not merely the low sum he paid at auction.


تاریخ نخستین خوانش: بیست و هشتم ماه آوریل سالمیلادی

عنوان: خانه شن و مه نویسنده: آندره دبیوس مترجم: مهدی قراچه داغی تهران پیکان سالدرص شابکچاپ دوم سالچاپ سوم سالموضوع امریکائیهای ایرانی تبار از نویسندگان ایالات متحده آمریکا سدهم

داستان در نخستین سالهای دهه ی نود از سده ی بیستم میلادی صورت میگیرد امیر مسعود بهرانی یک سرهنگ نیروی هوایی شاهنشاهی ایران در پی انقلاب سال هزار و سیصد و پنجاه و هفت هجری خورشیدی همراه با همسرش نادیا و پسر نوجوانشان اسماعیل به آمریکا کوچ میکنند ایشان در سانفرانسیسکو ناگزیر میشوند برای ادامه ی زندگی به سبک اشرافی گذشته ی خویش به کارهای سخت روی آورند با دیدن آگهی حراج یک خانه در نزدیکی ساحل به خرید خانه ای کوچک و دنج مبادرت میکنند که از سوی شهرستان آن ناحیه به حراج گذاشته شده ساکن پیشین آن خانه زنی جوان و افسرده با نام کاترین است که همسرش او را ترک کرده و خانه از پدرش به او به ارث رسیده است اما کاترین به دلیل عدم توجه به پرداخت مالیاتهای سالانه خانه را از دست داده و اکنون بهرانیها ساکن آن هستند کاترین و خانواده ی سرهنگ هرانی در واقع بدون آنکه هیچ کدام تقصیری داشته باشند در تلاش برای تصاحب آن خانه با هم در تقابل قرار میگیرند و, . .

تاریخ بهنگام رسانی هجری خورشیدی هجری خورشیدی ا. شربیانی.