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- 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...
- Location(s): Tehran
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s onwards
In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother’s endless grievances, Ellie...
The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran
- Location(s): Germany, Iran
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 1970s-2000s
A captivating, polyphonic novel of one family’s flight from and return to Iran. 1979. Behsad, a young communist revolutionary, fights with his friends for a new order after the Shah’s expulsion. He tells of sparking hope, of clandestine political...
- Location(s): Cambridge, Tehran
- Genre(s): Political, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
When the world is turned upside down, who can you trust? Cambridge, England – a professor with links to Iran’s nuclear programme is found dead on a park bench, a victim of poisoning by persons unknown. At the same...
- Location(s): Iran, Israel
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
What happens when a spy is forced to reckon with the consequences of his deception? Kamran Esfahani, a Persian Jewish dentist from Stockholm, dreams of starting afresh in California. To finance his new life, he agrees to spy for...
- Location(s): Isfahan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1974
At once a great love story, a riveting political thriller, and a profound analysis of modern Iran, THE PERSIAN BRIDE is unflinching in its vision of twentieth-century chaos. In 1974, the young Englishman John Pitt follows the hippie trail...
- Location(s): Iran, Tehran, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s /2000s
Meet the women of the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they’re nobodies. First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the famously large nose, who remained in Tehran despite the revolution. She lives alone in...
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
In a bustling marketplace in Iran, a traditional storyteller regales her audience with the tale of Prince Zal and the Simorgh. High up on the Mountain of Gems lives the Simorgh, a wise phoenix whose flapping wings disperse the...
- Location(s): Shiraz
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1979 onwards
In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. Terrified by his disappearance, his family must reconcile a new world of cruelty and chaos with the collapse of everything...
- Location(s): Tehran
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1950s
1953, Tehran. Roya loves nothing better than to while away the hours in the local stationery shop run by Mr. Fakhri. The store, stocked with fountain pens, shiny ink bottles, and thick pads of writing paper, also carries translations...
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