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House of Sand and Fog is a 2003 drama film directed by Vadim Perelman, with a screenplay written by Perelman and Shawn Lawrence Otto. It is based on the novel of the same name by Andre Dubus III . The story concerns the battle between a young woman and an immigrant Iranian family over the ownership of a house in Northern California, which ...
Jan 9, 2004 · House of Sand and Fog: Directed by Vadim Perelman. With Jennifer Connelly, Ben Kingsley, Ron Eldard, Frances Fisher. An abandoned wife is evicted from her house and starts a tragic conflict with her house's new owners.
House of Sand and Fog is a 1999 novel by Andre Dubus III. It was selected for Oprah's Book Club in 2000, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, and was adapted into the 2003 film, House of Sand and Fog .
Jan 1, 2001 · Andre Dubus III. 3.86. 133,085 ratings4,649 reviews. In this “page-turner with a beating heart” (Boston Globe), a recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck struggles to hold on to her home in California.
Reformed drug addict Kathy Nicolo (Jennifer Connelly) has her California coast house, which she inherited from her father, taken away by the county due to a misunderstanding about back taxes.
She neglects warnings from the county, the house is put up for auction, and it is purchased by Massoud Amir Behrani (Ben Kingsley), an Iranian immigrant who was a colonel in the Shah's air force but now works two jobs to support his family, and dreams that this house is the first step in rebuilding the lives of his wife and son.
Oct 2, 2018 · The National Book Award finalist, Oprah’s Book Club pick, #1 New York Times bestseller and basis for the Oscar-nominated motion picture. A recent immigrant from the Middle East―a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force―yearns to restore his family’s dignity in California.
- Andre Dubus III
