Books set in Iran (50)
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Dying in a Mother Tongue by Roja Chamankar EN
IranDescription:
This collection of poetry by the celebrated southern Iranian poet and filmmaker Roja Chamankar (b. 1981) introduces English-speaking readers to one of the most accomplished and well-loved poets of her generation. Chamankar’s work blends surrealism and the southern coastal landscape of the poet’s upbringing with everyday experiences in rapidly urbanizing Tehran. While locating herself in the modernist tradition of Iranian poets like Forugh Farrokhzad and Ahmad Shamlu through form and imagery, Chamankar infuses this tradition with concerns unique to a generation that grew up in post-revolutionar... continue
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El Reflejo de las palabras by Kader Abdolah ES
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Los lazos profundos e indestructibles entre un padre y un hijo, capaces de perdurar a través del tiempo y del espacio gracias al poder aglutinante del arte y de la lengua, son el fundamento narrativo de esta novela original y conmovedora, de marcado carácter autobiográfico. Ismail, un novelista iraní exiliado en Holanda, recibe por correo el diario de su padre fallecido, un tejedor de alfombras de Arak, región remota y montañosa de la antigua Persia. Sordomudo de nacimiento, Aga Akbar ha escrito esas páginas utilizando los símbolos de una... continue
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Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi EN
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From the best–selling author of Persepolis comes this gloriously entertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane’s tough–talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and neighbors for an afternoon of tea drinking and talking. Naturally, the subject turns to love, sex and the vagaries of men. As the afternoon progresses, these vibrant women share their secrets, their regrets and their often outrageous stories about, among other things, how to fake one’s virginity, how to escape an arranged marriag... continue
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Everything Sad Is Untrue : (A True Story) by Daniel Nayeri EN
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"At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. But Khosrou's stories are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his family fled Iran in the middle of the night with the secret police moments behind them, back to the refugee camps of Italy, and further back to Isfahan."--
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Funny in Farsi : A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas EN
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Finalist for the PEN/USA Award in Creative Nonfiction, the Thurber Prize for American Humor, and the Audie Award in Biography/Memoir This Random House Reader’s Circle edition includes a reading group guide and a conversation between Firoozeh Dumas and Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner! “Remarkable . . . told with wry humor shorn of sentimentality . . . In the end, what sticks with the reader is an exuberant immigrant embrace of America.”—San Francisco Chronicle In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California... continue
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Hyper by Agri Ismaïl SV
SwedenDescription:
En uppslukande och skarp roman om en kurdisk familjs sönderfall, med finanskrisen 2008 som fond.I skydd av natten flyr Rafiq Kermanj Teheran med sin fru Xezal och deras tre barn. Rafiq försöker bygga ett nytt liv åt sin familj i London, men förlamas av allt han har förlorat.I vuxen ålder går de tre syskonen skilda vägar. Äldste sonen Mohammed stannar i London och söker sig till den brutala finansbranschen. Siver, dottern i familjen, försvinner in i ett olyckligt äktenskap i Bagdad. Yngsta sonen Laika drar sig undan till en tillvaro helt levd online. Från en visningslägenhet vid Manhattans Wall... continue
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I Hid My Voice by Parīnūsh Sanīʻī EN
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Four-year-old Shahaab has not started talking. The family doctor believes there is no cause for concern; nevertheless, Shahaab is ridiculed by others who call him dumb. In his innocent and deeply hurt child s mind, he begins to believe that the good and intelligent children like his older brother are their fathers sons. On the other hand, children like him who are clumsy and problematic are their mothers sons. No one in the family can understand Shahaab except his maternal grandmother, who seems to possess the understanding and the kindness he so desperately craves. Their growing bond leads to... continue
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Iran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi EN
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In This Remarkable Book, Shirin Ebadi, Iranian Human Rights Lawyer And Activist, And Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Tells Her Extraordinary Story.Dr Ebadi Is A Tireless Voice For Reform In Her Native Iran, Where She Argues For A New Interpretation Of Islamic Law In Harmony With Vital Human Rights Such As Democracy, Equality Before The Law, Religious Freedom And Freedom Of Speech. She Is Known For Defending Dissident Figures, And For The Establishment Of A Number Of Non-Profit Grassroots Organisations Dedicated To Human Rights. In 2003 She Became The First Muslim Woman, And The First Iranian, To B... continue
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La casa de la mezquita by Kader Abdolah ES
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Sin duda uno de los más destacados narradores contemporáneos de los Países Bajos, el escritor de origen iraní Kader Abdolah —autor de El reflejo de las palabras— ha obtenido un rotundo éxito con esta nueva novela, que ha sido elegida por los lectores neerlandeses como segundo libro preferido de todos los tiempos. Durante generaciones, la poderosa familia de Aga Yan ha ocupado una posición privilegiada en la tranquila ciudad de Seneyán. Siguiendo una tradición secular, el clan habita un caserón de treinta y cinco habitaciones adosado a la mezquita, una enorme y animada colmena llena de abuelas,... continue
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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