Iran | Iran
Apr.11.2013
This groundbreaking anthology brings together twenty-seven authors from a wide range of experiences that offer new perspectives on the Iranian American story. The authors in Tremors represent the maturing voice of Iranian American fiction from the vantage point of those who were born and raised...
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Nov.18.2009
This stunning literary debut paints a vivid portrait of growing up, discovering love, and awakening to the reality of life in a nation on the verge of revolution in the 1970s. Rooftops of Tehran opens in a middle-class neighborhood in Iran’s sprawling capital city. The rooftop of the narrator’s...
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Aug.17.2009
A rich, soul-searching novel about the complex relationship between an enigmatic Iranian father and his Iranian-American daughter, for whom he wants to arrange a marriage.
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Mar.20.2009
This lyrical and disturbing memoir by the author of four novels (Foreigner, etc.) tells the story of an Iranian girl growing up in a culture where, despite the Westernizing reforms of the Shah, women had little power or autonomy. As an infant in 1946, Rachlin was given to her mother's favorite...
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Nov.17.2008
Muslims eagerly anticipate the appearance of the Mahdi, who will bring peace and tranquility to the earth. Could an infant born in Israel be this Holy One? Ari Ben Chaim, abandoned at birth, then raised on a kibbutz, now learns that four people in his life have been murdered by unknown assassis--...
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Jan.16.2008
Once there was a girl who could make glorious carpets from wool tinted with the essence of orange safflowers and pomegranates…
In seventeenth century Iran, a spirited village girl of fourteen approaches the age of marriage, only to find her destiny shattered by the ominous prophecies that follow a...
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Jan.09.2008
The Fortune Catcher is a family saga set against the Iranian Revolution, a story of epic love and a young woman’s political coming of age. Layla Bahari, half American, half Iranian, of Jewish and Muslim descent, returns to her father’s native country in 1981, two years after the Islamic Revolution...
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Jan.04.2008
A powerful literary tribute to women in exile Until recently, Iranian literature had overwhelmingly been the domain of men. But things have changed. The new hybrid culture of Iranian Americans has produced a uniquely feminine literary voice. Let Me Tell You Where I've Been is an extensive...
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Dec.21.2007
From the author of Le Divorce comes another alluring, fast-paced novel of an American woman abroad. While visiting Iran with her husband, Chloe Fowler is left to travel alone when he is summoned home unexpectedly. Initially drawn to the life she encounters in Iran, Chloe soon experiences...
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