TIFA 2026: The Small Ones: Nazanine Hozar in Conversation with Jo

In this very special event, the great author, John Irving will be in conversation with Nazanine Hozar to discuss her Giller-longlisted novel, The Small Ones. This gripping fable tells the story of children who are caught up in a military insurgence along the Iran–Iraq border in the early 1980s. This ragtag group of boys and one small girl, forced to become soldiers, create a little family of their own as they yearn to return home to safety. This extraordinary novel that takes us unflinchingly into a storm of deadly conflict through the eyes of its youngest participants, and questions the costs of war.