WHAT DO WE OWE TO THOSE WE LOVE?

Nahid has little time left. Or at least, that's what the doctors have just told her. She is a survivor, but the thought that the world will continue to turn without her disturbs her. She, who fought for the revolution without knowing the high price she would pay. She, who fled Iran and worked to build a new beginning and put down roots in a country that was not her own, so that her only child would have a tomorrow. And now she must survive again, for herself, for her daughter, for the future that is already on its way.

Written with honesty, strength, and wit, What We Were is a novel of love and survival, a reflection on the powerful bonds between mothers and daughters.

"A must-read." The Guardian

"A novel that vibrates with rage and power, with a thirst for life." Kultur

"A moving story about the rift between two worlds." Expressen