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By Yahya Gharagozlou,Parinaz Eleish,Clare Wolfowitz

during this intimate and tumultuous historic fiction, Iran performs a starring function below a level identify, "Persiran." We interact with its background via 3 generations of a vividly drawn aristocratic family members referred to as the Poonakis, starting with dual princes who're dedicated to one another, and finishing nowa days – after the Khomeini revolution – with one other set of dual brothers who're mortal enemies. The kin — just like the monarchy and the fledgling structure — is doomed, because the clerical imaginative and prescient of establishing the dominion of God on the earth prevails. the tale has numerous narrators, whose fates by means of the top will intersect. The book’s name refers to 9 severe nights of storytelling – transposed into binary code: 1001, enjoying at the vintage "1001 Nights" of Scheherazade.

The episodes of the unconventional occur in a palace, a mosque, a village, a harem; a tearoom, a whorehouse, a jail. The characters shuttle via deserts and mountains, to ecu towns, or even to the battlefront with Iraq. In episodes of comedy and farce, in addition to romance and, ultimately, tragedy, we get to understand those compelling characters, together with a number of unforgettable ladies. all through runs a huge subject matter: the storyteller’s legal responsibility to inform his tales – the uncooked materials of history.

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1001: Persiranian Stories of Love and Revenge

During this intimate and tumultuous historic fiction, Iran performs a starring position lower than a degree identify, "Persiran. " We have interaction with its historical past via 3 generations of a vividly drawn aristocratic family members known as the Poonakis, starting with dual princes who're dedicated to one another, and finishing nowa days – after the Khomeini revolution – with one other set of dual brothers who're mortal enemies.

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