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Best books from Asia (1979)
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El Libro de Mi Destino by Parinoush Saniee ES

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Iran flag Iran
Description:
Prohibida en varias ocasiones en su país, esta novela no sólo detenta el privilegio de ser la más popular en la historia de Irán, sino también la que ha gozado de mayor repercusión internacional. Galardonada en Italia con el Premio Bocaccio y traducida a veinticinco idiomas, retrata la vida en Teherán desde los años previos a la revolución de 1979 hasta el presente a través de la mirada de Masumeh, una mujer inquieta e inteligente criada en el seno de una familia tradicional iraní. Masumeh tiene quince años cuando conoce a Said, un aprendiz de farmacéutico, y entre ambos nace un sentimiento in... continue

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From Miniskirt to Hijab : A Girl in Revolutionary Iran by Jacqueline Saper EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Iran flag Iran
Description:
Jacqueline Saper, named after Jacqueline Kennedy, was born in Tehran to Iranian and British parents. At eighteen she witnessed the civil unrest of the 1979 Iranian revolution and continued to live in the Islamic Republic during its most volatile times, including the Iran-Iraq War. In a deeply intimate and personal story, Saper recounts her privileged childhood in prerevolutionary Iran and how she gradually became aware of the paradoxes in her life and community—primarily the disparate religions and cultures. In 1979 under the Ayatollah regime, Iran became increasingly unfamiliar and hostile to... continue

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The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Iran flag Iran
Description:
A sensuous and richly-imagined historical novel that centers on a skilled young carpet weaver, her arranged marriage, and her quest for self-determination in 17th-century Persia. In 17th-century Iran, a 14-year-old woman believes she will be married within the year. But when her beloved father dies, she and her mother find themselves alone and without a dowry. With nowhere else to go, they are forced to sell the brilliant turquoise rug the young woman has woven to pay for their journey to Isfahan, where they will work as servants for her uncle, a rich rug designer in the court of the legendary... continue

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Hafiz's Little Book of Life by Hafiz EN

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Country: Asia / Iran flag Iran
Description:
"A collection of more than 250 poems by Hafiz. Also included is a small biography of Hafiz, translators' notes, and a section on using Hafiz's work for divination"--

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Marx y la muñeca

Marx y la muñeca by Maryam Madjidi ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Iran flag Iran
Description:
La pequeña Maryam asiste desde el vientre materno al comienzo de la revolución iraní. Seis años después, ella y su madre se reúnen con su padre en el exilio en París. Con la ayuda de los primeros recuerdos, Maryam relata el abandono del país, la separación de su familia, la pérdida de sus juguetes —entregados a los niños de Teherán a instancias de sus padres, comunistas— y el borrado gradual del persa en favor del francés, al que al principio rechaza y luego adopta, hasta el punto de dejar en... continue

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The Girl with a Brave Heart

The Girl with a Brave Heart by Riṭah (Singer), Rita Jahanforuz EN

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Country: Asia / Iran flag Iran
Description:
After showing kindness to a strange old woman, Shiraz receives the gift of beauty but her lazy and unkind stepsister, Nargues, suffers a less pleasant fate in this adaptation of the Grimm's fairy tale, OMother Hulda, O reset in Tehran, Iran. Illustrations.
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The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Iran flag Iran
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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Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Iran flag Iran
Description:
2019. Moud is an out gay teen living in Los Angeles with his distant father, Saeed. When Moud gets the news that his grandfather in Iran is dying, he accompanies his dad to Tehran, where the revelation of family secrets will force Moud into a new understanding of his history, his culture, and himself. 1978. Saeed is an engineering student with a promising future ahead of him in Tehran. But when his parents discover his involvement in the country's burgeoning revolution, they send him to safety in America, a country Saeed despises. And even worse— he's forced to live with the American grandmoth... continue

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The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen by Shokoofeh Azar EN

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Country: Asia / Iran flag Iran
Description:
From International Booker Prize and National Book Award finalist Shokoofeh Azar, comes a stylistically audacious and emotionally powerful novel about one large, complicated family and a love affair lasting decades. Spanning fifty years in the history of modern Iran, this lush, layered story embraces politics and family, revolution and reconstruction, loss and love as it recounts the colorful destinies of twelve children who get lost one long-ago night inside a mysterious palace. Azar's first novel, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (Europa Editions, 2020), was shortlisted for the Stella ... continue



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