Shahrnush Parsipur: 3 books
Kissing the Sword
A Prison Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
A moving account of life as a political prisoner in post-revolutionary Iran from the acclaimed Iranian author of Women Without Men.
Shahrnush Parsipur was a successful writer and television producer in her native Iran until the Revolution of 1979. Soon after seizing control, the Islamist government...
Women Without Men
A Novel of Modern Iran
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
From an outspoken Iranian author comes a “charming, powerful novella” that is banned in Iran for its depiction of female freedom (Publishers Weekly).
“Parsipur is a courageous, talented woman, and above all, a great writer.” —Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis
This modern...
Touba
And the Meaning of Night
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
An Iranian woman forges her own path through life in this “stylishly original contribution to modern feminist literature” (Publishers Weekly).
After her father’s death, fourteen-year-old Touba takes her family’s financial security into her own hands by proposing to a fifty-two-year-old...