Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour
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.
'I absolutely loved Censoring an Iranian Love StoryInsightful and sensual, humorous and sly, allegorical and literary, it is an endless pleasure: a celebration of love and the written word from a part of the world where both still matter' Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan
Shahriar Mandanipour has won awards for his novels, short stories and non-fiction in Iran, although he was unable to publish his fiction from 1992 until 1997 through censorship. He went to the US in 2006 and is currently a visiting scholar at Harvard.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781408701607 |
| ISBN 10 | 140870160X |
| Title | Censoring an Iranian Love Story |
| Author | Shahriar Mandanipour |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2009-07-23 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Prizes | Winner of Muslim Writers Awards: Published Novel 2011 |
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