Darius the Great Is Not Okay

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Darius the Great Is Not Okay (2018, Penguin Publishing Group)

320 pages

English language

Published Dec. 30, 2018 by Penguin Publishing Group.

ISBN:
9780525553809

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5 stars (3 reviews)

Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He's a Fractional Persian--half, his mom's side--and his fist ever trip to Iran is about to change his life.

Darius has never really fit in at home, and he's sure things are going to be the same in Iran. His clinical depression doesn't exactly help matters and trying to explain his medication to his grandparents only makes things harder. Then Darius meets Sohrab, the boy next door, and everything changes. Soon, they're spending their days together, playing soccer, eating faludeh, and talking for hours on a secret rooftop overlooking the city's skyline. Sohrab calls him Darioush--the original Farsi version of his name--and Darius has never felt more like himself than he does now that he's Darioush to Sohrab.

By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Adib Khorram's brilliant debut is for anyone who's ever …

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Comincio questa recensione con una buona notizia: il 16 novembre scorso questo romanzo è arrivato anche in Italia grazie a Rizzoli con il titolo Darius, va tutto bene (forse). Vi consiglio caldamente di leggerlo per almeno due motivi: il primo riguarda il modo in cui viene mostrata la depressione; l’altro per il modo in cui viene raccontata la vita di un ragazzo a cavallo tra due culture, quella statunitense e quella iraniana.



A differenza della maggior parte dei romanzi YA che ho letto, dove la depressione viene diagnosticata alla fine della storia, come soluzione al malessere dellǝ protagonista, in Darius the Great Is Not Okay sappiamo fin da subito che Darius ha la depressione e che il suo punto di vista viene distorto da questa malattia. Khorram quindi descrive la quotidianità di un ragazzo con la depressione …

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Subjects

  • Children's fiction
  • Friendship, fiction
  • Grandparents, fiction
  • Depression, mental, fiction
  • Iran, fiction
  • Asian americans, fiction

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