A Persian Requiem, Simin Daneshvar, translated from Persian by Roxane Zand, 1969, Iran, NOVEL
"...It begins on the eve of World War II, as two landholder brothers, Yusef and Abol-Gassem, react in opposite ways to the British request for their grand harvests...Zari believes she must be the family peacemaker, a difficult role in these troubled times: "She kept thinking about her past, and wondering whether she had always been a coward or whether she had become one."..."
"...It begins on the eve of World War II, as two landholder brothers, Yusef and Abol-Gassem, react in opposite ways to the British request for their grand harvests...Zari believes she must be the family peacemaker, a difficult role in these troubled times: "She kept thinking about her past, and wondering whether she had always been a coward or whether she had become one."..."
(H.S., p. 279)
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