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Sadegh Hedayat’s The Blind Owl is a classic of modern Persian literature. It offers a short, unsettling entry rather than a realist panorama. The route moves from poetry by Attar, Hafez and Forugh Farrokhzad to fiction by Daneshvar, Parsipur and Golshiri. Satrapi's graphic narrative and Nafisi's memoir introduce other ways of writing about revolution, reading and exile.
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An unreliable narrator leads through obsession, recurring images and a disintegrating sense of reality.
Original title: بوف کور (Buf-e kur)
Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy · 1979
Translated by Barbara Majewska
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Five women meet in a garden outside Tehran as realism gives way to a fantastic story of liberation.
A retired colonel recalls children whose lives have been consumed by revolution and state violence.
A graphic memoir follows childhood during the Iranian revolution, migration and coming of age.
A writer attempts to tell Sara and Dara’s love story while anticipating and evading censorship.
Birds seek their king, the Simorgh, in an allegorical spiritual journey.
A selection from three poets of medieval Shiraz explores mystical, sensual and satirical love.
Selected poems bring together female desire, solitude and the search for an independent voice in modern Iran.
A landowning family in Shiraz faces the Allied occupation and moral choices during World War II.
A memoir of a private literature seminar intertwines women’s lives with reading banned and contested books.
The last member of an aristocratic family confronts illness and memories of inherited cruelty.
A graphic narrative lets women talk about marriage, sex and social expectations.
A musician’s last days become a graphic tale of lost love and disappointment.
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