Disoriental

Disoriental (French: Désorientale) is a French-language novel by French-Iranian author Négar Djavadi, published by Éditions Liana Levi [fr] in 2016.

She feels disoriented from her lack of status in the society, and the novel's title is a combination of the words "désorienter" and "oriental".

[2] Kimiâ's second uncle, a gay man, lives in a country where homosexuality is illegal and has a heterosexual marriage that produced children.

[2] Azarin Sadegh of the Los Angeles Review of Books stated that the French original has a "rich, deep, lyrical, with cinematographic quality" while this aspect disappears in the English translation.

[1] Robin Yassin-Kassab of The Guardian stated that "this novel compels the reader’s attention as consistently as it entertains.