Qalb-i Sang'shudah: Persian 2023

Adelaide has just broken up, after years of living together. As she launches into the love market, she discovers with horror that being forty-six years old is a powerful factor in a decline in the stock market of feelings. Obsessed with the idea of ​​meeting a man and marrying him as quickly as possible, she feels guilty for not managing her loneliness as a true feminist should. Surrounded by her friends who are themselves caught up in their existential crisis, she tries to come to terms with being single, while doing her job as best as possible in a large publishing house. In the second half of life, a single woman does what she can. The statistics run through his head and do not speak in his favor: “There are more women than men, and they die first. » In the time of #metoo, Chloé Delaume wrote a novel that is funny, poignant, and carried by magnificent writing.