The Book of Tehran: A City in Short Fiction - Couverture souple

Afshin-Navid, Atoosa; Ahmadi, Fereshteh; Asadi, Kourosh; Bahrami, Azardokht; Habibi, Hamed; Hosseini, Mohammad; Khorshidfar, Amir-Hossein; Nasser, Payam; Taraghi, Goli

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1910974242 ISBN 13 : 9781910974247

Editeur : Comma Press, 2019

Synopsis

A city of stories short, fragmented, amorphous, and at times contradictory Tehran is an impossible tale to tell. For the capital city of one of the most powerful nations in the Middle East, its literary output is rarely acknowledged in the West. This unique celebration of its writing brings together ten stories exploring the tensions and pressures that make the city what it is: tensions between the public and the private, pressures from without judgemental neighbours, the expectations of religion and society and from within family feuds, thwarted ambitions, destructive relationships. The psychological impact of these pressures manifests in different ways: a man wakes up to find a stranger relaxing in his living room and starts to wonder if this is his house at all; a struggling writer decides only when his girlfriend breaks his heart will his work have depth... In all cases, coping with these pressures leads us, the readers, into an unexpected trove of cultural treasures like the burglar, in one story, descending into the basement of a mysterious antique collector's house treasures of which we, in the West, are almost wholly ignorant.

'The aesthetic sensibility of Iranian culture appears, to the West, as mainly pre-modern, if not actually anti-modern... The fiction showcased in The Book of Tehran is a welcome corrective to this tendency... These stories feel decidedly contemporary in style and subject matter alike, with their protagonists' inner lives and interpersonal relationships at the fore.' - The Times Literary Supplement

Foreword by Orkideh Behrouzan.

Translated by: Sara Khalili, Sholeh Wolpé, Alireza Abiz, Caroline Croskery, Farzaneh Doosti, Shahab Vaezzadeh, Niloufar Talebi, Lida Nosrati, Susan Niazi and Poupeh Missaghi.

Developed in partnership with Visiting Arts.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Fereshteh Ahmadi is a novelist, short story writer, literary critic and editor. After studying architecture at the University of Tehran, she became a journalist in the late 1990s, and has since gone on to publish three collections of short stories: Everyone's Sarah (2004), featuring Television, selected by the Hooshang Golshiri Foundation as one of the best short stories of the year; Hyperthermia (2013); and Domestic Monsters (2016). She has also published two novels: The Fairy of Forgetfulness (2007), finalist of the Mehregan Award and the Rouzi- Rouzegari Awards for the Bookseller's Choice of the Best Novel, and Cheese Forest (2008), as well as a children's book: Nameless. She works as an editor for several publishing houses and is a member of the jury of the Golshiri and Rouzi- Rouzegari awards. In 2017, Ahmadi was writer in residence at the International Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Comma Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1910974242
• ISBN 13: 9781910974247
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Éditeur: Ahmadi Fereshteh
• Coordonnées du fabricant: BOOKS etc..; cs@booksetc.co.uk; ; BOOKS etc.; Aldershot; Royaume-Uni
• Personne responsable: non disponible