The book Who am I and what do I bring with my past? These are the questions that accompany the protagonist of this story, an Iranian student who moved to Paris to enroll in Medicine, but that ends up changing their plans and working, almost by accident, in a Muslim morgue. The city is an inexhaustible source of discoveries, starting from the attic where the girl lives together with other tenants from all over the world. In the ethnic microcosm of the apartment there are uncertainties, friendships are intertwined and new awareness is cultivated: in the protagonist the meeting with others raises first of all a sharp and sarcastic judgment that does not spare anyone, then a slow discovery of their weaknesses, finally the maturation of a more complete, cosmopolitan personality capable of intimidating even the most stubborn of our clichés. In the rooms of the attic it is an interesting piece in the panorama of migration literature born in Iran in the last decades. to know more

Tahereh Alavi is born in 1959 in Tehran, Iran. She moved to France in 1986, where she spent six years working as an editor for children books. She is a translator and she published several novels, including Life happens on Tuesday, which has been shortlisted for Golshiri Prize in 2003. After this, she published Attic rooms in 2014, shortlisted for Mehregan Prize. Her novels has been translated in Turkish, German, English, Arabic and Italian. Tehran and