false 5151 7603 081297106X 9780812971064 2757 <![CDATA[Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165637149m/7603.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165637149s/7603.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7603.Reading_Lolita_in_Tehran_A_Memoir_in_Books 3.40 18804 Reading Lolita in Tehran is a remarkable exploration of resilience in the face of tyranny and a celebration of the liberating power of literature.]]> 5151 3.41 19789 2986 2003 25869 0143104934 9780143104933 5 <![CDATA[Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167768153m/25869.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167768153s/25869.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25869.Shahnameh_The_Persian_Book_of_Kings 4.46 109 The great national epic of Persia—the most complete English-language edition

Wherever Persian influence has spread, the stories of the Shahnameh become deeply embedded in the culture, as their appearance in such novels as The Kite Runner amply attests. Among the greatest works of world literature, this prodigious narrative, composed by the poet Ferdowsi in the late tenth century, tells the story of pre-Islamic Iran, beginning in the mythic time of creation and continuing forward to the Arab invasion in the seventh century. The sweep and psychological depth of the Shahnameh is nothing less than magnificent. Now one of the greatest translators of Persian poetry, Dick Davis, presents Ferdowsi's masterpiece in an elegant combination of prose and verse.

]]> 101514 4.47 1400 86 79415 4.35 280 29 5151 3.41 19789 2986 400 2910034 1400063612 9781400063611 128 <![CDATA[Things I've Been Silent About]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255754690m/2910034.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255754690s/2910034.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2910034.Things_I_ve_Been_Silent_About 3.41 402 I started making a list in my diary entitled “Things I Have Been Silent About.” Under it I wrote: “Falling in Love in Tehran. Going to Parties in Tehran. Watching the Marx Brothers in Tehran. Reading Lolita in Tehran.” I wrote about repressive laws and executions, about public and political abominations. Eventually I drifted into writing about private betrayals, implicating myself and those close to me in ways I had never imagined.
--From Things I Have Been Silent About


Azar Nafisi, author of the beloved international bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a country’s political revolution. A girl’s pain over family secrets; a young woman’s discovery of the power of sensuality in literature; the price a family pays for freedom in a country beset by political upheaval–these and other threads are woven together in this beautiful memoir, as a gifted storyteller once again transforms the way we see the world and “reminds us of why we read in the first place” (Newsday).

Nafisi’s intelligent and complicated mother, disappointed in her dreams of leading an important and romantic life, created mesmerizing fictions about herself, her family, and her past. But her daughter soon learned that these narratives of triumph hid as much as they revealed. Nafisi’s father escaped into narratives of another kind, enchanting his children with the classic tales like the Shahnamah, the Persian Book of Kings. When her father started seeing other women, young Azar began to keep his secrets from her mother. Nafisi’s complicity in these childhood dramas ultimately led her to resist remaining silent about other personal, as well as political, cultural, and social, injustices.

Reaching back in time to reflect on other generations in the Nafisi family, Things I’ve Been Silent About is also a powerful historical portrait of a family that spans many periods of change leading up to the Islamic Revolution of 1978-79, which turned Azar Nafisi’s beloved Iran into a religious dictatorship. Writing of her mother’s historic term in Parliament, even while her father, once mayor of Tehran, was in jail, Nafisi explores the remarkable “coffee hours” her mother presided over, where at first women came together to gossip, to tell fortunes, and to give silent acknowledgment of things never spoken about, and which then evolved into gatherings where men and women would meet to openly discuss the unfolding revolution.

Things I’ve Been Silent About is, finally, a deeply personal reflection on women’s choices, and on how Azar Nafisi found the inspiration for a different kind of life. This unforgettable portrait of a woman, a family, and a troubled homeland is a stunning book that readers will embrace, a new triumph from an author who is a modern master of the memoir.





]]> 5151 3.41 19789 2986 2008 6288368 3865216978 9783865216977 0 <![CDATA[Inge Morath: Iran]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6288368.Inge_Morath_Iran 3.00 1 Holiday magazine. She wore the traditional chador and traveled alone most of the time. It was difficult to photograph there as a woman," she later recorded. In this body of work, Morath's subjects range from politics and religion to work and commerce, from the shah's palace to the nomad's tent to Zoroaster's sacred shrine. She photographed Iran with the keen vision of an anthropologist, examining religious rituals, costuming, work, sport, music, art and theater in order to document "the continuity--or lack of it--between past and present," as she later put it. Morath's work in Iran presaged her later work in Spain, China and Russia, creating an extensive document of the clash between modernity and tradition in the postwar Middle East. Retrospectively, Inge Morath: Iran recalls a land and a culture that have been profoundly transformed since the Iranian Revolution of 1979. It is a window into the past that provides a singular and timely perspective on Iran in the present."]]> 5151 3.41 19789 2986 77328 3.40 5 0 221216 4.00 4 2 2857812 3.00 1 0 2009 7145346 2259210155 9782259210157 0 <![CDATA[Mémoires captives]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7145346-m-moires-captives 3.00 1 5151 3.41 19789 2986 10284 3.62 124 15 1289446 3.00 1 0 2009 894454 0 <![CDATA[آن دنیای دیگر-تاملی در آثار ولادیمیر نباکف]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179259967m/894454.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179259967s/894454.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/894454._ 0.0 0 5151 3.41 19789 2986 1994