Dalia Sofer Selected Works

After decades of ambivalent work as an interrogator with the Iranian regime, Hamid Mozaffarian travels on a diplomatic mission to New York, where he encounters his estranged family. As he reconnects with his brother and others living in exile, Hamid is forced to reckon with his past.

In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. Terrified by his disappearance, his family must reconcile a new world of cruelty and chaos with the collapse of everything they have known. As Isaac navigates the terrors of prison, and his wife feverishly searches for him, his children struggle with the realization that their family may soon be forced to embark on a journey of incalculable danger.