Tales of Iran 2 - Softcover

Rashidi, Feridon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785072803 ISBN 13: 9781785072802

Publisher: New Generation Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

These captivating stories, by turn tragic and humorous, are about the lives of ordinary people in Tehran and in a remote, poverty-stricken village. A worn-out peasant, whose old mother is dying, snatches the only shabby ball from a small group of boys who play noisily in a dusty path outside his hovel, a henpecked man, bullied non-stop by his wife, falls in love with an attractive neighbour and disappears with her into the jungle of Tehran, a young woman, whose mother was murdered by her father when a small girl, finds happiness in a family, a young man retreats to his makeshift hut in the corner of a trash dump to read a book he has found somewhere, an old village headman searches endlessly to find out about his soldier son during Iran-Iraq war.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Generation Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785072803
• ISBN 13: 9781785072802
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 66