Books from Iran
44 popular iranian books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Asia Challenge" were written by authors from Iran.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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La lechuza ciega by Sadeq Hedayat ES
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La lechuza ciega, obra maestra de la literatura iraní del siglo XX, tuvo que escapar de la censura del Irán anterior a la guerra e imprimirse en India, de forma precaria (una exigua tirada en multicopista), en 1936. En 1941 se publicó por entregas en la revista Iran y hasta años después no fue editada como libro. Supuso un verdadero escándalo en la sociedad iraní, pero contó desde el primer momento con apasionados defensores, entre los que se contaba André Breton. Sadeq Hedayat reproduce en sus páginas el universo alucinado de un fumador de opio que, obsesinado por la imagen de una mujer, se v... continue
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Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare EN
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Includes a short story entitled "A long conversation."
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Laughing Without an Accent : Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad by Firoozeh Dumas EN
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The author continues the story of her Iranian-American family and their experiences at home and abroad, from dealing with her French husband's Christmas traditions to taking fifty-one Iranian family members on a cruise to Alaska.
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Leer Lolita en Teherán by Azar Nafisi ES
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Cada jueves a la mañana a lo largo de dos años, Azar Nafisi, una valiente y brillante profesora iraní, reúne clandestinamente en el salón de su casa a siete de sus alumnas más aventajadas con el fin de leer libros prohibidos: obras de Jane Austen, Henry James, Scott Fitzgerald, y por supuesto, de Vladimir Nabokov, el autor de Lolita. Mientras las jóvenes poco a poco se expresan a través de los libros, se dan cuenta cómo sus propias vidas se van transformando y mezclando con la trama de las obras a las que se entregan.
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Leer Lolita en Teheran by Azar Nafisi ES
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Leer Lolita en Teherán es, en el acto y en el título, una abierta manifestación de la libertad de la imaginación frente a las prohibiciones, políticas o de cualquier índole. También podría haberse llamado Leer Gatsby, o James, o incluso Austen, que son las partes en que se divide el libro (podría agregarse a Saúl Bellow).
Nafisi, es profesora de Literatura, y luego de su abandono de la Universidad, dictó durante dos años un taller para un grupo de jóvenes. El taller, y el libro dialogan con las obras li... continue
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MARTYR! by Kaveh Akbar EN
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Cyrus Shams is lost. The orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, Cyrus never knew his mother. Killed when her plane was shot down over the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident, Cyrus has spent his life grappling with the meaningless nature of his mother's death. Now he is set to learn the truth of her life. When Cyrus's obsession with the lives of the martyrs - Bobby Sands, Joan of Arc - leads him to a chance encounter with a dying artist, he finds himself drawn towards the mysteries of his past: an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the Angel of Death; and toward his mother, w... continue
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My Life as a Traitor by Zarah Ghahramani EN
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It was part youthful zeal and part teen crush that led Zarah Ghahramani to join a student protest movement. But dabbling in student politics was to lead to disaster when one day she was bundled into a car and taken to Tehran's most notorious prison: Evin. Far from her comfortable middle-class home, Zarah had to find refuge from her ruthless interrogators in a windowless concrete cell. Day after day she was humiliated and viciously beaten until all she wanted was simply to die, her spirit broken. In My Life as a Traitor, Zarah tells the story of her horrifying ordeal and her eventual release, a... continue
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My Uncle Napoleon : A Novel by Iraj Pezeshkzad EN
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The most beloved Iranian novel of the twentieth century “God forbid, I’ve fallen in love with Layli!” So begins the farce of our narrator’s life, one spent in a large extended Iranian family lorded over by the blustering, paranoid patriarch, Dear Uncle Napoleon. When Uncle Napoleon’s least-favorite nephew falls for his daughter, Layli, family fortunes are reversed, feuds fired up and resolved, and assignations attempted and thwarted. First published in Iran in the 1970s and adapted into a hugely successful television series, this beloved novel is now “Suggested Reading” in Azar Nafisi’s Readin... continue
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No Friend But the Mountains : Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani EN
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"Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man." -- From the Foreword by Man Booker Prize-winning author Richard Flanagan In 2013, Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island, a refugee detention centre off the coast of Australia. He has been there ever since. This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi. It is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait of five years of incarceration and exile. Winner of the Victoria... continue
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Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi EN
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BEST SELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. “A wholly original achievement.... Satrapi evokes herself and her schoolmates coming of age in a world of protests and disappearances.... A stark, shocking impact.” —The New York Times: "The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years" In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the coming-of-age story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regim... continue