Sutra and Other Stories

by Simin Daneshvar, سیمین دانشور, Hasan Javadi (Translator)

Contains six stories including "A City Like Paradise", "Childbirth", "Potshards", "Bibi Shahrbanu", "Sutra", and "Daneshvar's Iran".

Genres: Short Stories, Iran, Literature

192 pages, Paperback

First published October 4, 1994

About the author

Simin Dāneshvar ‎ was an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator, largely regarded as the first major Iranian woman novelist. Daneshvar had a number of firsts to her credit.

Reviews

[Clarissa]

I really liked how natural the English felt. There were a few slightly awkward phrases, but overall the translation worked really well.