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VIS + I
Farideh Razi - -
Vis + I is an interior monologue during a harrowing cab ride through the streets of Tehran as Pardis rushes to the airport to stop her lover from leaving. Multiple narrative threads and flashbacks, real and imaginary voices—primarily that of Vis, the heroine of the Persian epic romance, Vis + Ramin—interweave in this gritty, postmodern love story. Vis + I poses ...
Self-Portrait in Bloom
Niloufar Talebi - -
In the aftermath of World War II, “a new dynamism” was taking shape in Persian poetry. Award-winning translator Niloufar Talebi explains how Iranian poets were increasingly instrumental in “freeing Persian poetry from the state of decline and stagnation.” Into this backdrop emerges the poet Ahmad Shamlou in this part-memoir, part-biography, ...
Altogether in the Shifting World
Mauro Mevlud Martino - -
It has taken me a lifetime to know who I was, who I am, and who I am becoming. Today, I see a sprawling panorama of images full of vibrant characters that helped to orchestrate this life of mine. And today, I can clearly see that the fuel for such a life was an audacious love for the quest that would lead to the ONE TRUE HUMAN ...
The Blind Owl (Authorized by The Sadegh Hedayat Foundation - First Translation into English Based on the Bombay Edition)
Sadegh Hedayat - -
Widely regarded as Sadegh Hedayat's masterpiece, the Blind Owl is the most important work of literature to come out of Iran in the past century. On the surface this work seems to be a tale of doomed love, but with the turning of each page basic ...
