Books set in Iran (72)
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The Peasant King by Tessa Afshar EN
IranDescription:
Jemmah has always thought of herself as perfectly ordinary . . . until she faces extraordinary circumstances. When her mother, the Persian king's famous senior scribe, is kidnapped, Jemmah and her sister must sneak undetected into enemy territory to rescue her. But infiltrating their adversary's lands proves easier than escaping them. Fleeing through dangerous mountain passes, their survival depends on the skills of a stranger they free from prison: a mysterious prince named Asher. Asher is not who the world believes he is. Despite his royal blood, he has had to climb his way out of poverty to... continue
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The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji EN
Description:
"Meet the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they're nobodies. First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the famously large nose who stayed in Tehran during the revolution. She lives in a shabby apartment, paranoid and alone. Except when she is visited by Niaz, her Islamic-law-breaking granddaughter who takes her debauchery with a side of purpose, and yet somehow manages to survive. Elizabeth's daughters left for America in 1979: Shirin, a charismatic yet outrageous event planner in Houston who considers herself the family's future, and Seema, a dreamy idealist-... continue
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The Stationary Shop of Tehran by Marjan Kamali EN
TurkeyDescription:
*** If you read The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul and enjoyed The Beekeeper of Aleppo, you will love The Stationery Shop of Tehran *** 1953, Tehran. Roya loves nothing better than to while away the hours in the local stationery shop run by Mr. Fakhri. The store, stocked with fountain pens, shiny ink bottles, and thick pads of writing paper, also carries translations of literature from all over the world. And when Mr. Fakhri introduces her to his other favorite customer -- handsome Bahman, with his burning passion for justice and a shared love for Rumi's poetry -- Roya loses her heart at once. Bu... continue
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The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali EN
Description:
A poignant, heartfelt new novel by the award-nominated author of Together Tea—extolled by the Wall Street Journal as a “moving tale of lost love” and by Shelf Awareness as “a powerful, heartbreaking story”—explores loss, reconciliation, and the quirks of fate. Roya, a dreamy, idealistic teenager living amid the political upheaval of 1953 Tehran, finds a literary oasis in kindly Mr. Fakhri’s neighborhood stationery shop, stocked with books and pens and bottles of jewel-colored ink. Then Mr. Fakhri, with a keen instinct for a budding romance, introduces Roya to his other favorite customer—handso... continue
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The Stoning of Soraya M. by Freidoune Sahebjam EN
Description:
The true story of an innocent woman stoned to death in modern Iran--only one of over 100 such barbaric executions that still occur there every year, sanctioned by Islamic law. Already an international bestseller, this book eloquently reveals the ever-growing disparity between the fundamentalist rights of men and women in Muslim society.
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The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad EN
PakistanDescription:
Brutal and beautiful traditions have lasted for centuries create a rigid structure for life in the wild, astonishing place where Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan meet. Ahmad has written an unforgettable portrait of a world of custom and compassion, of love and cruelty, of hardship and survival.
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The Way of the World by Nicolas Bouvier EN
Country: Europe / 
Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
Travel writing, reflects convincingly on the meaning of the experience.
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The Wind in My Hair by Masih Alinejad EN
Description:
Death and memory -- Beloved roots -- The disaster -- Surviving disaster -- With the wind in my hair -- Men and women -- My mother -- Desire for freedom -- Kuwait -- Women -- Italy -- Motherhood -- About the intifada.
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Then the Fish Swallowed Him : A Novel by Amir Ahmadi Arian EN
Description:
An critically-acclaimed Iranian author makes his American literary debut with this powerful and harrowing psychological portrait of modern Iran--an unprecedented and urgent work of fiction with echoes of The Stranger, 1984, and The Orphan Master's Son--that exposes the oppressive and corrosive power of the state to bend individual lives. Yunus Turabi, a bus driver in Tehran, leads an unremarkable life. A solitary man since the unexpected deaths of his father and mother years ago, he is decidedly apolitical--even during the driver's strike and its bloody end. But everyone has their breaking poi... continue
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Touba and the Meaning of Night by Shahrnush Parsipur EN
Description:
An Iranian woman forges her own path through life in this “stylishly original contribution to modern feminist literature” (Publishers Weekly). After her father’s death, fourteen-year-old Touba takes her family’s financial security into her own hands by proposing to a fifty-two-year-old relative. But, intimidated by her outspoken nature, Touba’s husband soon divorces her. When she marries again, it is to a prince with whom she experiences tenderness and physical passion and bears four children—but their relationship sours when he proves unfaithful. Touba is granted a divorce, and as her unconve... continue