Books by Shahrnush Parsipur and Complete Book Reviews

Touba and the Meaning of Night
Touba and the Meaning of Night
Shahrnush Parsipur, Author, Havva Houshmand, Translator, Kamran Talattof, Translator , trans. from the Persian by Havva Houshmand and Kamran Talattof. The Feminist Press at CUNY $25.95 (367p) ISBN 978-1-55861-519-9
Eighty dramatic years in Iran—from the turn of the 20th-century to the 1979 revolution—are witnessed through Touba's chador-covered eyes in this bold, insightful novel, Parsipur's second to be translated into English. After her...
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Women Without Men: A Novella
Women Without Men: A Novella
Shahrnush Parsipur, Author, Jocelyn Sharlet, Translator, Kamran Talattof, Translator Syracuse University Press $22.95 (108p) ISBN 978-0-8156-0552-2
Using the techniques of both the fabulist and the polemicist, Paripur (Prison Memoirs) continues her protest against traditional Persian gender relations in this charming yet powerful novella. Imprisoned once for her dissident views, Paripur, a...
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