Imagine that Ruhollah Khomeini, the former Supreme Leader of Iran who led the Islamic Revolution, finds his palace swarmed by hundreds of thousands of ghosts who were executed by revolutionaries. An ...
This challenging debut by Iranian writer Azar, forced to flee to Australia in 2011, tells in dreams and fantasies the story of one family during and after the Islamic Revolution, which overtook the ...
In this lush if chaotic novel from Azar (The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree), a Zoroastrian family’s peace is shattered by the Iranian Revolution. The novel focuses on how war and cultural ...