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- 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...
- Location(s): Tehran
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
In this poignant, eye-opening and emotionally vivid novel, Mahbod Seraji lays bare the beauty and brutality of the centuries-old Persian culture, while reaffirming the human experiences we all share. In a middle-class neighborhood of Iran’s sprawling capital city, 17-year-old...
- Location(s): Tehran
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
All through her childhood in Tehran, Forugh Farrokhzad is told that Persian daughters should be quiet and modest. She is taught only to obey, but she always finds ways to rebel—gossiping with her sister among the fragrant roses of...
- Location(s): Tehran
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Love, loyalty and identity collide in Azin Sametipour’s compelling debut novel, Tehran Moonlight. Vividly set in a country where women have no voice, one woman’s fight for love and her own identity result in unimaginable consequences. She was 23,...
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): 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
- 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): 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...
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