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The House on Sun Street

The House on Sun Street
  • Author(s): Mojgan Ghazirad
  • Location(s): Tehran
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

A young girl grows up in a family uprooted by the terror of an Islamic Revolution, where her culture, her gender, and her education are in peril. For the curious and imaginative Moji, there is no better place to...

The Other Side of Trust

The Other Side of Trust
  • Author(s): Neil Robinson
  • Location(s): Cambridge, Tehran
  • Genre(s): Political, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When the world is turned upside down, who can you trust? Cambridge, England – a professor with links to Iran’s nuclear programme is found dead on a park bench, a victim of poisoning by persons unknown. At the same...

The Garden of Inside-Outside

The Garden of Inside-Outside
  • Author(s): Chiara Mezzalama, Régis Lejonc (Illustrator), Sarah Ardizzone (Translator)
  • Location(s): Tehran
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1980s

NOMINATED FOR THE KATE GREENAWAY MEDAL 2021 In the summer of 1981, Chiara and her family join their father in Tehran. He has been made Italian ambassador to Iran, and their home is a palace with a wild walled...

The Girl with a Brave Heart

The Girl with a Brave Heart
  • Author(s): Rita Jahanforuz, Vali Mintzi (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Tehran
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Young Shiraz lives a lonely life with her stepmother and stepsister, completely unaware of the old woman who lives alone next door…until Shiraz’s runaway yarn ball brings them face-to-face. This beautiful story from Tehran-born Israeli pop star Rita Jahanforuz...

Appointment in Tehran

Appointment in Tehran
  • Author(s): James Stejskal
  • Location(s): Tehran
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When radical Iranian students seize the U.S. Embassy compound in Tehran and take over fifty diplomats hostage the U.S. President has to negotiate with a government that wants only to humiliate the United States. When talks fail, the President...

Ceremony of Innocence

Ceremony of Innocence
  • Author(s): Madeleine Bunting
  • Location(s): Iran, Bahrain, England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1960s onwards

A Cambridge PhD student called Reem has gone missing in Egypt. Those close to her fear that her investigation into her family’s history in the Gulf has put her in danger. The trail leads back to Tehran in 1969,...

Darius the Great Is Not Okay

Darius the Great Is Not Okay
  • Author(s): Adib Khorram
  • Location(s): Iran
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He’s a Fractional Persian – half, his mum’s side – and his first-ever trip to Iran is about to change his...

The Immortals of Tehran

The Immortals of Tehran
  • Author(s): Ali Araghi
  • Location(s): Iran, Tehran
  • Genre(s): Magical Realism, Poetry
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Torkashvand family reveres their seemingly immortal patriarch, Agha, the trunk of their widely branching, family tree. When we come to the story, Agha is so old that he spends his days sitting in the family orchard, drinking tea...

The Book of Tehran (Reading the City)

The Book of Tehran (Reading the City)
  • Author(s): Fereshteh Ahmadi (Author
  • Location(s): Tehran
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

A city of stories short, fragmented, amorphous, and at times contradictory Tehran is an impossible tale to tell. For the capital city of one of the most powerful nations in the Middle East, its literary output is rarely acknowledged...

The Phoenix of Persia

The Phoenix of Persia
  • Author(s): Sally Pomme Clayton, Amin Hassanzadeh Sharif (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Iran
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

In a bustling marketplace in Iran, a traditional storyteller regales her audience with the tale of Prince Zal and the Simorgh. High up on the Mountain of Gems lives the Simorgh, a wise phoenix whose flapping wings disperse the...

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