Tales of Iran
Author | : Feridon Rashidi |
Publisher | : New Generation Publishing |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2017-01-04 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781787192584 |
ISBN-13 | : 178719258X |
Rating | : 4/5 (58X Downloads) |
Download or read book Tales of Iran written by Feridon Rashidi and published by New Generation Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-04 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These evocative short stories put together in historical order, present a vivid mosaic of the dramatic, comic, lyrical, and tragic. Spanning 100 years, the tales are wonderfully diverse - a young girl is forced to marry a feudal lord much older than her, a village dandy falls in love with a beautiful woman in a foreign land, the treacherous role played by the people of Tehran when the democratically elected government of Dr Mosaddegh was overthrown by the help of the CIA, young boys in a remote village are asked to take part in horrific, absurd and comical religious ceremonies and festivals, a little boy who becomes intensely preoccupied with the secret lives of marionettes, a deeply religious adolescent who fails to have sex with a prostitute, a woman who is banned from singing under Sharia Law, a pigeon-fancier who falls in love with a young woman whose fanatic family cause a lot of problems for him - but together these tales create a sense of separate destinies entwined across time and space.