TEHRAN ( IBNA) -- Persian translation of ‘Atomic Love’ (2020), a novel by American author Jennie ‎Fields, a story of science, love, espionage and female empowerment has been published ‎and is available at Iranian bookstores. ‎
The book which is centered on a heroine who carves a strong path in the world of men has been translated into Persian by Ma’soumeh Soltanabadi. Kooleh-Poshti Publishing has released ‘Atomic Love’ in 384 pages.
Chicago, 1950. Rosalind Porter has always defied expectations- in her work as a physicist on the Manhattan Project and in her passionate love for colleague Thomas Weaver. Five years after the end of both, her guilt over the bomb and her heartbreak over Weaver are intertwined. She desperately misses her work in the lab, yet has almost resigned herself to a more conventional life.
Then Weaver gets back in touch- and so does the FBI. Special Agent Charlie Szydlo wants Roz to spy on Weaver, whom the FBI suspects of passing nuclear secrets to Russia. Roz helped to develop these secrets and knows better than anyone the devastating power such knowledge holds. But can she spy on a man she still loves, despite her better instincts? At the same time, something about Charlie draws her in. He’s a former prisoner of war haunted by his past, just as her past haunts her.
As Rosalind’s feelings for each man deepen, so too does the danger she finds herself in. She will have to choose: the man who taught her how to love . . . or the man her love might save?
Jennie Fields received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is the author of the novels ‘Lily Beach’, ‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’, ‘The Middle Ages’, and ‘The Age of Desire’. A Chicago native, Fields was inspired by her own mother’s work as a University of Chicago-trained biochemist in the 1950s. Fields now lives with her husband in Nashville, Tennessee.