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About the Author

Includes the name: Daniel Nayeri

Image credit: Daniel Nayeri with his sister and co-author Dina Nayeri

Séries

Obras por Daniel Nayeri

Associated Works

The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love, and Truth (2020) — Contribuidor — 178 exemplares
The Creativity Project: An Awesometastic Story Collection (2018) — Contribuidor — 97 exemplares

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Conhecimento Comum

Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Iran (birth)
USA
Local de nascimento
Iran
Locais de residência
New York City, New York, USA
Ocupações
writer
editor
pastry chef
Relações
Nayeri, Dina (sister)
Agente
Joanna Volpe

Membros

Críticas

One of the best books I’ve ever read. The storytelling is immersive and the writing delightful. Reading it was an experience.
 
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erindarlyn | 25 outras críticas | Jan 25, 2024 |
I could not get through this. It felt like I was reading someone's rambling diary, not a novel.

My favorite part of the book was when I skipped forward to a random page to see where all this meandering was leading and my eyes fell on these lines:

"Are you still there, reader?
No?
Maybe you've gone and the only eyes are the ones who flipped to this page accidentally. Or you've skipped ahead from someplace in the beginning and missed all the parts that explain me to you--from there to here.
Maybe I'm the patchwork text.
Maybe I deserve to be hit all the time.
Maybe I'm a liar.
Maybe I don't deserve a welcome.
And maybe I never had anything good."

I feel like this passage gives you a pretty good idea of the kind of book this is.

It reminded me of [b:Hokey Pokey|13642591|Hokey Pokey|Jerry Spinelli|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348791506l/13642591._SX50_.jpg|19257831] because on some level I can appreciate that it's weird and experimental and might be fascinating to some readers. But it is most definitely not for me.
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LibrarianDest | 25 outras críticas | Jan 3, 2024 |
This novel was a big let down for me.

I picked up this book at a clearance event for books. I had wanted to read the novel for years, but I could never remember the name. The book was the cheapest of the pile and on sale on top of the clearance, which should have been a warning.

I heard rave reviews from my friends that I should read this book, so I picked it up willing and ready to be wooed. Sadly, this book was one where I had to force myself to continue, and I did not see the point in the ending.

The ending to the book, without spoiling, made me question if it was randomly made up on the spot because a better ending couldn't be found. The ending didn't fit with the pace of the novel or make sense. While I did not read up on the Faust story itself, I felt that the ending could have been more dramatic and exciting instead of a lame 'The End' feeling. The conflict did not seem to be resolved and I felt more confused than ever as to what really happened.

The novel was very slow to start, and slowed down even more when I got into it. When I was about 4/5ths of the way through, I began to become really into the book and I couldn't put it down, but the ending didn't fit in with the pace that was built throughout the novel.

I had high hopes for this novel, and I will read Another Pan to see if it is any better, but it was a let down.

I wish the ending would have been better, because if it went out with a bang I would have found the book much more interesting. A slow build in pace would have been nice with a spectacular ending that made up for the slow build to the climax.

This book would be good for preteens or younger, since it isn't as climactic as most Young Adult novels.

Overall, not impressed but I will keep it on my shelf.
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Briars_Reviews | 34 outras críticas | Aug 4, 2023 |
An orphan becomes a servant to a dream merchant in a caravan traveling on the Silk Road. "Monkey" relates the tale of his life with Samir, his discovery that a number of people have hired a number of assassins to kill him, and their many close escapes - from flame, poison, arrows, gunpowder, a berserker, and even accident itself.

See also: The Inquisitor's Tale by Adam Gidwitz; Black Bird, Blue Road by Sofiya Pasternack

Quotes

...if you are an orphan, anyone can kill you, and no one will cry. (5)

Death, with love, is better than life without it....I would discover what it meant to love. (44)

Though he was untrustworthy in almost every respect, I knew, at least, that he had saved me once. That had to count for something. (66)

But let this be a lesson: To everyone we love we give a knife.
The knife is shaped to pass through the bones of our chests like a key in a lock.
Nothing can cut our hearts so deeply. (74)

Everything must have a value. (95)

...I could see no difference if God punished us on purpose or by accident - the hammer or the anvil. The result was the same. (107)

Let this be a lesson: Once you are a liar, no one will believe anything about you, even if you show them your broken heart. And a broken heart is the most believable thing in the world. (115)

...I wondered if Samir had ever been a father. I wondered if the reason he loved kids was because his heart had already built a room for them. (146)

People want to tell you who they are, even when they are your enemies. (156)

He was the only person I ever met who didn't dream of gold.
He dreamed dreams. (185)
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JennyArch | 2 outras críticas | May 22, 2023 |

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Membros
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Popularidade
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Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
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ISBN
74
Línguas
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Marcado como favorito
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