Book & Persian Literature

[Rasputin]

From Ancient Persia to Contemporary Iran

Author: Reza Ladjevardian

From Ancient Persia to Contemporary Iran covers the highlights of Iran's history in a brief, easy to read, factually acurate and inexpensive timeline. The full-color 11" x 5" brochure opens accordion-style to the size of 11" x 35." The highest quality paper and printing process have been used to make it a lovely gift for all occasions and a wonderful way to introduce someone to the history and cultural heritage of Iran.

[nanakhafan]

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[Rasputin]

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CLOSED CIRCUIT HISTORY

by Ardeshir Mohassess
Foreword by Ramsey Clark

Closed Circuit History is a record of Iran's eternal landscape of the past and a retrospective of an important Iranian artist. Ardeshir Mohassess is an artist of the first order, and as with all true artists he is an antenna and decoder of the society in which he lives. With rare skill and insight, using a few strokes, he communicates the truth of our experience. He has been drawing since the age of three, and although he received his degree in political sceince and law from the University of Tehran, his real interest was to draw his field, rather than practice it. His drawings were first published in Iran in the early 1960s and have continued to appear since, both in Iranian and Western newspapers, including The New York Times, The New York Review of Books and Graphis. Today, besides many private collectors and museums, The Library of Congress is also collecting Ardeshir's drawings.

In a perceptive and culturally sensitive forward, fromer US Attorney General and advocate of constitutional rights Ramsey Clark sets the historical background enabling the unfamiliar Westerner to appreciate Ardeshir's art. Ali Banuazizi, professor of social psychology and modern Iranian history at Boston College, with brilliant simplicity and deep uinderstanding, introduces us to Ardeshir Mohassess, the artist, his life, and work.

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Savushun

Author: Simin Daneshvar




Savushun chronicles the life of a Persian family during the Allied occupation of Iran during World War II. It is set in Shiraz, a town which evokes images of Persepolis and pre-Islamic monuments, the great poets, the shrines, Sufis, and nomadic tribes within a historical web of the interests, privilege and influence of foreign powers; corruption, incompetence and arrogance of persons in authority; the paternalistic landowner-peasant relationship; tribalism; and the fear of famine. The story is seen through the eyes of Zari, a young wife and mother, who copes with her idealistic and uncompromising husband while struggling with her desire for traditional family life and her need for individual identity.

Daneshvar's style is both sensitive and imaginative, while following cultural themes and metaphors. Within basic Iranian paradigms, the characters play out the roles inherent in their personalities. While Savushun is a unique piece of literature that transcends the boundaries of the historical community in which it was written, it is also the best single work for understanding modern Iran. Although written prior to the Islamic Revolution, it brilliantly portrays the social and historical forces that gave pre-revolutionary Iran its characteristic hopelessness and emerging desperation so inadequately understood by outsiders.

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A Man of Many Worlds

Author: Ghasem Ghani



Rare is the life lived at the center of history-shaping events, and rarer still the combining of such a life with brilliant gifts of observation and expression. Dr. Ghasem Ghani of Iran was such an individual. His recollections of a career of pioneering scholarship and diplomacy have been published to great acclaim in twelve volumes in the original Persian. Now his son has edited and abridged this record into a single volume in EnglishÑA Man of Many Worlds: The Diaries and Memoirs of Dr. Ghasem Ghani. For anyone interested in modern Iranian history and the interacting traditions of East and West, it is essential reading, full of insightful observations and comments that are relevant today.
To call Dr. GhaniÕs mind wide-ranging verges on understatement. Born in Sabzevar, in northeastern Iran, in 1892 and trained as a physician in Beirut and Paris, he established the first hospital in his hometown. Fluent in English, French and Arabic, he was an avid reader of such Western thinkers as Ralph Waldo Emerson and William James, and translated several of the novels of Anatole France into Persian.

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Black Parrot, Green Crow

A Collection of Short Fiction

Author: Houshang Golshiri

Introduction by Heshmat Moayyad



UNTIL NOW, only a sparse selection of Golshiri’s fiction has been available in English translation—three short stories, a novella written under a pseudonym, and his novel Prince Ehtejab, which was made
into a film. Now, Black Parrot, Green Crow brings together the largest collection of Golshiri’s writings in any language—eighteen short stories and three poems. They span the arc of Golshiri’s career as a
writer, from his days as a young student in Isfahan under the Pahlavi regime, to the 1980s and 1990s, and the disappointment of the Iranian people with the Islamic Republic. Golshiri’s stories, crafted
with a withering irony, expose the fanatical and draconian political apparatus of tyrannical regimes, while his wry humor and delicate sensitivity to the human condition tempers the blistering satire, making the narratives short but nonetheless harrowing and touching tragedies. The tales are filled with the uncertainty of life in a culture undergoing drastic change, and hauntingly etch the plight of the individual in a climate of political oppression.

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The Iranians: Persia, Islam and the Soul of a Nation

At first the title of this book seems a bit insulting, like it was some sort of science experiment: "observe the animals in their natural habitat". The book is actually well written and quite insightful providing strong and accurate facts about Iranian culture and its modern history. I recommend this book to novices and those who want a quick history lesson.

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Tales of Two Cities

A Persian Memoir

Author: Abbas Milani




Tales of Two Cities is an engrossing, cross-cultural memoir of revolution and exile. It is the story of a fifteen year-old Persian boy sent for his eduction from an old-world, pre-oil boom Tehran, to the new-world, avant-garde San Francisco of the 1960s. Abbas Milani richly chronicles his education, politicization, return to Iran, disillusionment and eventual exile. Interwoven with the brisk narrative is a loving account of the traditional Iran of the author's childhood; a searing memoir of a lost generation of Iranians torn apart by revolution and exile, a graphic portrait of the author's time in the shah's jail and of his cellmates, the mullahs who would soon emerge as the new leaders of the Islamic Republic. Tales of Two Cities is not only the odyssey of one intellectual doomed to exile, but also a message of hope and ultimately salvation for the increasing number of people forced to leave their homeland and settle in America.

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In the Land of the Lion & Sun

Experiences of Life in Persia from 1866-1881

Author: C.J. Willis

with a new introduction by Abbas Amanat




C.J. Wills was an English physician who traveled widely in Iran from 1866*81 while working for the Indo-European Telegraph Department. With a discerning eye for detail, Wills wrote an intimate anthropological account of Qajar-era Iran, rich with description of everyday life, popular beliefs and practices, and arts and crafts, as well as health practices and communications that were his professional concern. In the Land of the Lion and Sun, the second volume to appear in Mage's Persia Observed series, provides a fresh and fascinating insight into both a time and place, as well as the biases and sympathies of a generation.

In his introduction to this new edition of Wills' book, Abbas Amanat presents a critical reading of Wills' career, his works, and his view of Qajar Iran.

[Michellica]

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[Rasputin]

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Ghabl az zamane Qajar ham rajebe zanaye irooni dar society niaz be info daram..chon felan harchi khoondam bad az Qajar hast....
Merci hamegi!

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[Michellica]

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[Rasputin]

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[Michellica]

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