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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): Iran
- Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): Contemporary
Seventeen-year-old Sahar has been in love with her best friend, Nasrin, since they were six. They’ve shared stolen kisses and romantic promises. But Iran is a dangerous place for two girls in love–Sahar and Nasrin could be beaten, imprisoned,...
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Later 19th Century
Set in Iran at the end of the 19th Century ―in the Persian royal court of the Qajars―, In The Palace of Flowers is an atmospheric historical novel about Jamila, an Abyssinian slave who stands at the funeral of...
In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): early 2000s
A superb, authoritatively written insider’s account of Iran, one of the most mysterious but significant and powerful nations in the world. Few historians and journalists writing in English have been able to meaningfully examine post-revolutionary Iranian life. Years after...
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 19th century
A vanished, tattered black and white photograph, taken in Tehran in 1946. The image of a sombre and inscrutable middle-aged man called Salman Fuladvand, a lieutenant and controversial police chief under Iran’s second last king. It is the memory...
Land of the Turquoise Mountains: Journeys Across Iran
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
For Cyrus Massoudi, a young British-born Iranian, the country his parents were forced to flee thirty years ago was a place wholly unknown to him. Wanting to make sense of his roots and piece together the divided, divisive and...
Legionary: Dark Eagle (Legionary 8)
- Location(s): Syria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Iran, Istanbul (Constantinople), Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late Antiquity, Late Roman Empire
A tale of vengeance and high adventure set in the war-torn late Roman Empire What hope has one forgotten soldier of bringing an emperor to justice? Winter, 382 AD. The Gothic War is over. After years of bloodshed, the...
Legionary: Land of the Sacred Fire (Legionary 3)
- Location(s): Syria, Iran, Iraq, Istanbul (Constantinople), Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late Antiquity, Late Roman Empire
A tale of adventure and military brotherhood in the legions of Rome The empire is on its knees, but a last hope lies beyond the eastern frontier . . . 377 AD: Emperor Valens has stripped the Persian frontier...
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1982
Based on historical events, this unforgettable and inspiring tale for middle-grade readers is about a young boy torn from the only life he’s ever known and held captive as a prisoner of war. In 1982, twelve-year-old Reza has no...
- Location(s): Iran, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century / present
Cyrus Shams has always been lost. He’s grown up tangled in the mysteries of his past – an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields, a haunting work of art by an exiled painter, and his mother, whose plane was...
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