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- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Children
Rumi’s poetry is fashioned into lyrical prose for children
City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran
- Location(s): Tehran
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
Welcome to Tehran, a city where survival depends on a network of subterfuge. Here is a place where mullahs visit prostitutes, drug kingpins run crystal meth kitchens, surgeons restore girls’ virginity and homemade porn is sold in the sprawling...
The Temporary Bride: A Memoir of Love and Food in Iran
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
- Era(s): Modern
In her thirties, Jennifer Klinec abandons a corporate job to launch a cooking school from her London flat. Raised in Canada to Hungarian-Croatian parents, she has already travelled to countries most people are fearful of, in search of ancient...
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): 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...
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
On a holy mountain in the depths of Persia there is a cave with a mysterious cuneiform carving deep inside it. Aga Akbar, a deaf-mute boy from the mountain, develops his own private script from these symbols and writes...
- Location(s): Iran, Russia, Sweden, Turkey
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Slaughter in the Balkans, corruption, amorous women, an insurgency in the harsh wastes of a Central Asian failed state, murderous henchman, insufferable natives, interrogation by the enemy, theocratic megalomania, treachery, a sinister crime lord and pursuit by bloodthirsty maniacs...
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s onwards
Growing up in a small fishing village in 1980s Iran, 11-year-old Saba Hafezi and her twin sister Mahtab are fascinated by America. They keep lists of English vocabulary words and collect contraband copies of Life magazine and Bob Dylan...
- 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...