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The Cypress Tree: A Love Letter to Iran
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): early 2000s
Kamin Mohammadi was nine years old when her family fled Iran during the 1979 Revolution. Bewildered by the seismic changes in her homeland, she turned her back on the past and spent her teenage years trying to fit in...
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 11th century
Dara, a young shepherd from a remote village in the Seljuq Empire, is about to marry his love, Golnar, when the unthinkable happens: Golnar is kidnapped on their wedding day. With his sworn brother Borzoo at his side, Dara...
- Location(s): Nepal, India, Iran, Pakistan, Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s, 1990s
A TENSE, FAST PACED AND KALEIDOSCOPIC PULP THRILLER, FOLLOWING THE LIVES OF TWO GENERATIONS OF DRIFTERS EMBROILED IN A SAGA OF SEX, DRUGS AND MURDER ON THE ROAD BETWEEN LONDON AND THE ROOF OF THE WORLD. In 1976, four...
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
From the pen of one of Iran’s rising literary stars, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree is a family story about the unbreakable connection between the living and the dead. Set in Iran in the decade following the 1979...
- Location(s): Iran, Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): AD 79
As addictive as Game of Thrones, and perfect for fans of Robert Harris’ Cicero trilogy, The Exiled is a stunning novel of power, treachery and ambition. A.D. 79. Parthia is gripped by civil war. One king vying for the...
- 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): Iran
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): AD 216 - AD 274
This is the story of Mani, a forgotten figure, but whose name is yet, paradoxically, on everyone’s lips. When using the words “Manichean” or “Manichaeism” one rarely thinks Mani, painter, doctor and Eastern philosopher of the third century, called...
- 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): Iran
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1979
In the house of the mosque, the family of Aqa Jaan has lived for eight centuries. Now it is occupied by three cousins: Aqa Jaan, a merchant and head of the city’s bazaar; Alsaberi, the imam of the mosque;...
- 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...
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