Alive and Kicking: Short story collection Contemporary Iranian Women ?Writers - Couverture souple

Riahi, Marjan; Alipour Gaskari, ‎Behnaz; Bahrami, Azardokht; Davar, Mitra; Elyati, Mitra; Mohebali, Mahsa; Nezam Shahidi, Asieh; Tabatabaei, Nahid ‎; Fereshteh ‎, Tavangar; Vafi, Fariba ‎

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1544022727 ISBN 13 : 9781544022727

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

Alive and Kicking ‎ This collection of twenty short stories by ten leading Iranian ‎women writers introduces many of them to English-speaking ‎audiences for the first time. These are successful authors ‎whose books are widely read and appreciated by Iranian ‎readers. Some have won awards and many of their books have ‎been reprinted multiple times.‎ These writers live in different parts of the Islamic Republic of ‎Iran and work in a wide range of professions. They write ‎under difficult circumstances since all their works are ‎scrutinised by the Ministry of Guidance before permission to ‎publish is granted, often after substantial rewriting, cutting ‎and editing. Getting published thus requires a great deal of ‎energy and persistence, making the authors' efforts to keep ‎Iranian culture alive even more admirable.‎ The stories range over the recent past and the present and ‎explore themes such as love and its ending, desire, friendship, ‎the strains and frustrations of family life, the challenges of the ‎workplace. Some are highly realistic while others are fantastic ‎and surreal. The female characters in the stories are often ‎strong and independent, sometimes angry and rebellious. In ‎this way the collection provides a series of portraits of women's ‎lives in modern-day Iran. ‎

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1544022727
• ISBN 13: 9781544022727
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 254
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