Books by Sanam Mahloudji
“It’s very funny, and it’s so unexpected. When I picked up the book, I didn’t know anything about it. I didn’t want to read any blurb or reviews, I just came to the work very clean. So I thought, when I picked this up, that it would be a historical novel about the Persians. I expected a different country, a different time, a different culture. But then this opens and it’s like the Kardashians of Aspen. It’s told from lots of different points of view, of women within this family. And it’s a book about who they are now, now they’ve lost their money, their clout. How can they negotiate America as immigrants—and not powerful immigrants either.” Read more...
The Best Novels: The 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction
Kit de Waal, Novelist
Interviews where books by Sanam Mahloudji were recommended
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What We Can Know: A Novel
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We Do Not Part
by Han Kang, translated by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris -
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Flashlight: A Novel
by Susan Choi -
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The Life of Violet
by Virginia Woolf -
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Dream Count
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -
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Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi
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The Best Novels: The 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction, recommended by Kit de Waal
The 2025 shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction features a family saga about formerly rich Iranian refugees, a surprisingly funny tale of ISIS brides and a “weird” midlife crisis adventure in suburban California. We asked the bestselling novelist—chair of this year’s judging panel—to talk us through the six finalists.
