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Censoring an Iranian Love Story (Translation)
[Paperback - 2011]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Abacus Uk | ISBN: 9780349121451 | Pages: 293
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Truly original, CENSORING AN IRANIAN LOVE STORY is an incredibly imaginative yet always charming love story set in contemporary Iran that crackles with wit, verve and social comment: Sara falls in love with Dara through secret messages hidden in code in the pages of books that have been outlawed, but then something quite extraordinary and unexpected happens. Through adeptly handled asides to the reader, as well as anecdotes, codes and metaphors, and cheeky references to the wonderfully rich Iranian literary heritage, the novel builds to offer a revealing yet often playful and hopeful comment on the pressures of writing within the tightly prescribed Islamic regime, pressures that naturally are heightened where affairs of the heart are concerned.

Shahriar Mandanipour is an award-winning Iranian novelist in modern Persian literature and is now a well-known international writer. He won the Mehregan Award for the best Iranian children's novel of 2004; the Golden Tablet Award for best fiction of the past 20 years in Iran, 1998; and Best Film Critique at the Press Festival in Tehran (1994). Mandanipour "was prohibited from publishing his fiction in his native country between 1992 and 1997. He came to the United States in 2006, as an International Writers Project Fellow at Brown University, and stayed in America."

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