Simin Daneshvar: 3 books

Book cover of A Persian Requiem
by Simin Daneshvar
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012

Tribal leaders in opposition to the government, the corruption of occupation, society torn apart by shifting political loyalties... this is the background to one woman's powerful story. A Persian Requiem is a powerful and evocative novel. Set in the southern Persian town of Shiraz in the last years...
Book cover of The Israeli Republic: An Iranian Revolutionary’s Journey to the Jewish State
by Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Samuel Thrope, Bernard Avishai
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017

“[The Israeli Republic] suggests how the Iranian and Israeli leaders who feel such intense mutual hostility today actually mirror one another in certain ways, particularly in their foundational attitudes toward religious authority, political and economic populism, and the West. That a writer such...
Book cover of Savushun

Savushun

A Novel About Modern Iran

by Simin Daneshvar
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012

Savushun chronicles the life of a Persian family during the Allied occupation of Iran during World War II. It is set in Shiraz, a town which evokes images of Persepolis and pre-Islamic monuments, the great poets, the shrines, Sufis, and nomadic tribes within a historical web of the interests, privilege...
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