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Coming Down Again
by Joobin Bekhrad
(Matador £8.99)
JOOBIN BEKHRAD’S debut novel provides a first-person insight into the life of many young teenagers living in the Iranian capital in recent times.
Yet protagonist Asha is not like the typical teenage boy who craves “fast cars, loads of cash and all the sex a randy 16-year-old could beg for.”
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