The Cheese Forest

April 17, 2016 parsagon 0

Author: Fereshteh Ahmadi Publisher: Qoqnoos Publication Date: 2009 Available in other languages: No To discover the real cause of her father’s death, a girl embarks […]

Stutter

February 16, 2016 parsagon 0

Author: Amirhossein Yazdanbod Publisher: Ofoq; 2012 Available in other languages: No Stutter begins with the writer’s confession – that he has not written the story […]

The Mourners of Bayal

October 14, 2015 parsagon 0

Author: Gholamhossein Sa’edi Publication Date: 1964 Perhaps the best-known collection of Gholamhossein Sa’edi’s short stories, The Mourners of Bayal comprises eight interconnected stories, all of which […]

Scorpion on Andimeshk Railway Stairs

May 21, 2015 parsagon 0

Title: Scorpion on Andimeshk Railway Stairs, or This Train is Bleeding, Sir! Series: Contemporary Iranian Fiction Author: Hossein Mortezai’ean Abkenar Genre: Novel – War Literature Publisher: […]

Shazdeh Ehtejab

November 23, 2014 parsagon 0

Author: Houshang Golshiri Publication date: 1969 Available in other languages: Yes Shazdeh Ehtejab (or Prince Ehtejab), Houshang Golshiri’s magnum opus first released in 1969, is […]

The Pomegranate Lady and Her Sons

September 15, 2014 Safaneh Mohaghegh Neyshabouri 0

Goli Taraghi (b. 1939 in Tehran) is an exilic Iranian writer living and working in France. Although her writings are frequently censored in her home country, they are widely circulated there and receive much attention form the public. The stories of this collection, The Pomegranate Lady and Her Sons translated from Persian to English by Sara Khalili, are chosen from a number of short story collections originally published in Persian.