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A Persian Requiem
Author(s): Simin Daneshvar (Author), Roxane Zand (Translator), Roxane Zano (Translator)
- Publisher: Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
- Publication Date: 23 May 1991
- Edition: 1st Uk
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781870015400
- ISBN-13: 1870015401
Book Description
Thought to be the first novel published by a Iranian woman, this tells of the impact of the British army of occupation on a small Persian town in the 1940s. Events are seen through the eyes of a woman who, untypically for the time and place, begins to question her own position and expectations.
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About the Author
Educated in Iran she won a Fulbright scholarship to Stanford University. Married to a major Iranian intellectual who founded the Writers’ Association of Iran, which she supported after his early death. She provided moral support for those opposing the Shah, but retired from public life after the revolution in 1979.
