Land of Roses and Nightingales: Seven Adventures of a Persian Girl - Hardcover

Motaref, Nooshie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1732067732 ISBN 13: 9781732067738

Publisher: A3d Impressions, 2018

Synopsis

This collection of translated Persian Folktales focused on female protagonists, is a new publication created by Nooshie Motaref, author of the award-winning novel, Tapestries of the Heart.  She grew up in Persia and studied in four countries—Iran, Germany, Switzerland and the United States. She received her master’s and doctorate degrees in American Literature and Folklore from Florida State University. Her dissertation is a proof of Carl Jung’s theory, the “Collective Unconscious,” through Persian fairytales and folktales.

Reading these stories is a journey much like a magic carpet ride — a Persian girl’s odysseys through time and space. She steps out of a dream, an embodiment of a hero and battles evil forces or solves riddles by using her wits and strengths. She serves for the good of others, consequently, in the process, she metamorphoses to a mature woman. In the end, through endurance, she is triumphant so that even the Persian king takes a bow to her. Her adventures are based on Persian fairytales and folktales narrated by her.

The tales are timeless and carry a feminist message. It does not matter where we live, we are all fascinated by ordinary heroes. We love to read stories where a single unexpected event can utterly transform a life. These thousand-year-old fables have endured showing the timeless universal issues all teens go through: love, heartache, family matters, and challenging authority. These adventures are gripping and compelling, chosen to help our teens recognize they have the same conflicts as other young people throughout history and in very different cultures.

Fairytales of each country are like the folk music or “science fiction” of that nation. These adventures are adapted to appeal to Young Adult readers. Yet they also carry redeeming social value that attracts teachers, professors, librarians, storytellers, and parents. The Literary Analysis is to assist in interpreting the girl’s adventures based on Carl Jung’s theory, “Collective Unconscious”. It is the icing on the cake.

In March of 2014, Nooshie Motaref presented one of her articles, “Women and Islam,” for a conference, Women, and Education, at Oxford University in Oxford, England.

She frequently gives speeches on several subjects related to her birthplace including its culture, traditions, and religion. Her purpose is to familiarize Western audiences with Iranian life and ethnicity.

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Review

From Nooshie Motaref's award-winning book, Tapestries of The Heart:

“Tapestries of the Heart artfully takes readers into the lives of four Persian women, sharing their heartrending and courageous stories. These stories weave timeless themes of love, loss, dreams, and struggles as the author demystifies the hidden world of Iranian women. Nooshie Motaref captures the religious and political realities of a changing Iran, but she does more than that: She unforgettably gives voice to these women in a country demanding their silence.”

~Karen Zittleman, Ph.D., author of Teachers, Schools, and Society and Still Failing at Fairness: How Gender Bias in Schools Cheats Girls and Boys and What We Can Do About It.

“Tapestries of the Heart goes where the author means it to go - straight to the reader's heart. It is only through being infused with these brave survivors' spirit and emotion that we can begin to understand how their fullest elemental human qualities are stressed and strained over generations by the various patriarchal strictures imposed upon them....”

~Laurie Burke, March 24, 2017

“Woven through the span of one hundred years from the grandmother, her daughter, and her daughter’s daughter, I now know the heart-rending journey of Persian women finding their identities within the confines of religion, the men they marry and the culture that defines them.”

~Ginia Desmond, Screenwriter, and Producer

“A sensitive and intelligent look at the region and events that have changed the world. Epic as Cather, brutal as Steinbeck, sharp as Steinem, and, no doubt, soon to be a major motion picture!”

~R. Patrick Zeler, March 22, 2015

“The strength of the amazing women in Tapestries of the Heart defies time, era, education, cultural and political adversity, and it helps us to go beyond what we think we’re capable of. With every page, I felt the connection as if I were part of this family in all 4 generations!”

~Farah Boroomand, Chief Financial Officer

“I really enjoyed reading Tapestries of the Heart. Not only could I feel and relate to the struggles, oppression, and hope of women in Persia over the years, I also learned the history that influenced and dictated those struggles and oppression....”

~Lori DiGuardi, May 29, 2017

“A superbly written chronicle of four Persian women, the culture they lived in and sometimes battled. The insight into Iranian life from the perspective of these women who lived in Persia over the span of a century and experienced the political and religious upheavals is enlightening. Their courage in struggling with daily life, love, and traditions is inspiring.”

~Allan, February 4, 2018

Edition details

• Publisher: A3d Impressions
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1732067732
• ISBN 13: 9781732067738
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 120