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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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)
- 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...
- Location(s): Tehran
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
This award-winning debut novel by Iranian journalist Nasim Marashi follows the lives of three young women in Tehran over the course of two seasons as they pursue their wildly different dreams even as they discover that it may mean...
- Location(s): Tehran
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Late 1970s
Based on historic events, and frighteningly relevant to today’s headlines — a taut, Year of Living Dangerously-style thriller set in Tehran in the days leading up to the Iranian Revolution. In the style of Alan Furst, this suspenseful thriller...
Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran
- Location(s): Tehran
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2005 onwards
Azadeh Moaveni, longtime Middle East correspondent for Time magazine, returns to Iran to cover the rise of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Living and working in Tehran, she finds a nation that openly yearns for freedom and contact with the West...
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