A Mixture of Fiction and Memoir from Iranian Women
Explore a captivating blend of fiction and memoir with these powerful books by Iranian women. Discover unique voices, personal stories, and cultural insights in this curated collection.
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Touba and the Meaning of Night
by ShahrnĆ«sh PÄrsÄ«ÊčpĆ«r
Banned in Iran, this epic masterpiece of dissident Iranian woman writer finally arrives in the U.S.
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The Blood of Flowers
by Anita Amirrezvani
After her father dies without leaving her with a dowry, a seventeenth-century Persian teen becomes a servant to her wealthy rug designer uncle in the âŠ
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The Bathhouse
by Farnoosh Moshiri
With intense emotion and great literary skill, Farnoosh Moshiri has written one of the most moving novels to come out in years. The story begins âŠ
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Saffron Sky
by Galareh Asayesh
This lyrical memoir evinces the author's passion for constructing an American life with the spiritual fervor and deeply aesthetic rituals that were part of her âŠ
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Honeymoon in Tehran
by Azadeh Moaveni
Powerful and poignant, "Honeymoon in Tehran" is a stirring, trenchant, and deeply personal chronicle of two years in the maelstrom of Iranian life.
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Camelia
by Camelia Entekhabifard
Camelia Entekhabifard was six years old in 1979 when the shah of Iran was overthrown by revolutionary supporters of the Ayatollah Khomeini. By the age âŠ
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The Septembers of Shiraz
by Dalia Sofer
In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. Terrified by his disappearance, his family âŠ
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Prisoner of Tehran
by Marina Nemat
Nemat tells the heart-pounding story of her life as a young girl in Iran during the early days of Ayatollah Khomeini's brutal Islamic Revolution--arrested, tortured, âŠ
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Funny in Farsi
by Firoozeh Dumas
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER âą Finalist for the PEN/USA Award in Creative Nonfiction, the Thurber Prize for American Humor, and the Audie Award in Biography/Memoir âŠ
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The Blindfold Horse
by Shusha Guppy
In an eloquent memoir, the author recreates the lost world of her childhood--a Persia delicately balanced between traditional Islamic life and the transforming forces of âŠ
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Journey from the Land of No
by Roya Hakakian
An emotional, evocative coming-of-age story about one deeply intelligent and perceptive girlâs attempt to find her own voice in prerevolutionary Iran âAn immensely moving, extraordinarily âŠ
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Jasmine and Stars
by Fatemeh Keshavarz
In a direct, frank, and intimate exploration of Iranian literature and society, scholar, teacher, and poet Fatemeh Keshavarz challenges popular perceptions of Iran as a âŠ
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Women Without Men
by ShahrnĆ«sh PÄrsÄ«ÊčpĆ«r
A modern literary masterpiece, Women Without Men creates an evocative and powerfully drawn allegory of life in contemporary Iran. With a tone that is as âŠ
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Behind the Tall Walls
by Azar Aryanpour
Nearly two decades after the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Azar Aryanpour speaks for the first time in Behind the Tall Walls, an autobiographical retrospective of âŠ
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My Name Is Iran
by Davar Ardalan
Drawing on her remarkable personal history, a National Public Radio producer brings readers the lives of three generations of women and their ordeals with love, âŠ