Tales of Iran - Softcover

Rashidi, Feridon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1629211664 ISBN 13: 9781629211664

Publisher: Feridon Rashidi, 2014

Synopsis

These evocative short stories, put together in historical order, present a vivid mosaic of the dramatic, comic, lyrical, and tragic. Spanning 100 years, the tales are wonderfully diverse - a young girl is forced to marry a feudal lord much older than her, a village dandy falls in love with a beautiful woman in a foreign land, the treacherous role played by the people of Tehran when the democratically elected government of Dr Mosaddegh was overthrown by the help of the CIA, young boys in a remote village are asked to take part in horrific, absurd and comical religious ceremonies and festivals, a little boy who becomes intensely preoccupied with the secret lives of marionettes, a deeply religious adolescent who fails to have sex with a prostitute, a woman who is banned from singing under Sharia Law, - but together these tales create a sense of separate destinies entwined across time and space.

Edition details

• Publisher: Feridon Rashidi
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1629211664
• ISBN 13: 9781629211664
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 302