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- Location(s): Isfahan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 17th Century
Set in seventeenth-century Iran, THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS is the powerful and haunting story of a young girl’s journey from innocence to adulthood. A village girl’s dreams of marriage end on the death of her father. Cast on the...
- Location(s): Iran, Paris
- Era(s): Modern
A young southern woman, Evelyn-also known as “E”-is confronted by a CIA officer, Nick, who says her mysterious lover is being investigated as a foreign mole. Shocked, she agrees to cooperate, secretly. E thus enters the international world of...
- Location(s): Baku, Iran, Turkmenistan
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
These days, Mark Sava spends more time in tutoring sessions than in cloak-and-dagger rendezvous. The former CIA station chief of Azerbaijan has settled into the modest life of a professor in Baku…until an assassin makes a brazen attempt on...
- Location(s): Iran, London, Mazareh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 1900s onwards
come. Richmond Hill in London is a far cry from where Maryam Mazar was born and raised, the little village of Mazareh in Iran, but this affluent suburb is where she has lived for more than forty years. She...
- Location(s): Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
This book is set in the heart of the stateless stretch of mountains where the borders of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran meet: an area now in the news and seen as lawless, and rulled by tribal Taliban, but pre...
- Location(s): Tehran
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1979
“Whirlwind” is the story of three weeks in Tehran in February 1979: three weeks of fanaticism, passion, self-sacrifice and heartbreak. Caught between the revolutionaries and the forces of international intrigue is a team of professional pilots. They are ordered...
Children of the Jacaranda Tree
- Location(s): Tehran
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1983 and late 2000s
Tehran, 1983. A city paralysed by fear, its people silenced. And the beating heart of the regime is Evin prison. Yet even within its walls three women dare to dream of a life beyond tyranny. Azar gives birth to her...
- Location(s): Florida, Tehran
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1960s onwards
Ashley Dartnell’s mother was a glamorous American, her father a dashing Englishman, each trying to slough off their past and upgrade to a more romantic and exotic present in Iran. As the story starts, Ashley is eight years old...
Prisoner of Tehran: One Woman’s Story of Survival Inside a Torture Jail
- Location(s): Tehran
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1980s onwards
‘Nemat tells of her harrowing experience as a young Iranian girl at the start of the Islamic revolution. In January 1982, the 16-year-old student activist was arrested, jailed in Tehran’s infamous Evin prison, tortured and sentenced to death. Ali,...
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century/modern
For over 30 years the Islamic Republic has resisted widespread condemnation, sanctions, and sustained attacks by Iraq in an eight-year war. Many policy-makers today share a weary wish that Iran would somehow just disappear as a problem. But with...
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