Iran
- Author:Khosravi, ShahramSummary:
- Author:Clavell, JamesSummary:
The sixth book in James Clavell's epic Asian Saga tells the story of three weeks in Tehran in February 1979-three weeks of passion, self-sacrifice, and heartbreak. When the shah is thrown out of Iran, the nation's turmoil becomes world...
- Author:Ghaffari, RabeahSummary:
In 1979, just before the Iranian Revolution, Bibi, wife of a retired judge, struggles to keep her family and entire househld together amidst their differing hopes for a new Iran.
- Author:Jahanbegloo, RaminSummary:
Sorbonne-educated and the author of almost 30 books, Ramin Jahanbegloo, a philosopher of non-violence in the tradition of Tolstoy and Gandhi, was arrested and detained in Iran's notorious Evin prison in 2006.
- Author:Kroeker, JeremySummary:
Jeremy Kroeker is a Mennonite with a motorcycle. He doesn’t have a funny beard and he’s never even driven a buggy, but his family hails from the same Mennonite community that Miriam Toews fictionalized in A Complicated Kindness. From...
- Author:Kurzman, CharlesSummary:
Through interviews and eyewitness accounts, declassified security documents and underground pamphlets, Kurzman documents the overwhelming sense of confusion that gripped pre-revolutionary Iran, and that characterizes major protest...
- Author:Yalfani, MehriSummary:
Mehri Yalfani’s stories in The Street of Butterflies feature Iranian women dealing with displacement, cultural change, and struggles for survival and adaptation as immigrants in North America. At the same time, the challenges...
- Author:Sofer, DaliaSummary:
Wrongly accused of spying after the Iranian Revolution, Isaac Amin is tossed into prison, forcing his wife to desperately search for him.
- Author:Byron, RobertSummary:
In 1933, Robert Byron set off from Venice with his friend Christopher Sykes to explore the architecture of the Middle East. Their long and arduous journey took them from Cyprus and Jerusalem to Syria, Iraq, Persia and Afghanistan, and...
- Author:Taheri, AmirSummary:
In this timely offering, Amir Taheri dissects the regime that has hijacked a nation for global "holy war" against the United States, revealing Iran's terror links, its nuclear capabilities, and how it can be defeated.
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The Love Poems of Rumi, as translated by Philip Dunn in this gorgeous little book, maintain the same emotional significance with readers today as they did seven centuries ago when originally composed by the Persian poet.
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- Author:Kangarlou, TaraSummary:
In today's interconnected global village, Iran remains a mystery to much of the rest of the world especially to those living in the United States and the west. While the country is often synonymous with rogue behavior on the world stage...
- Author:Reza, ParisaSummary:
In Iran in the early 1920s, in the remote village of Ghamsar, Talla and Sardar, two teenagers dreaming of a better life, fall in love and marry. Sardar brings his young bride with him across the mountains to the suburbs of Tehran, where...
- Author:Sharifirad, YadollahSummary:
This is a gripping, page-turning memoir of a US-trained Iranian fighter pilot who flew in the Shah of Iran’s and the Ayatollah Khomeini’s air force. Sharifirad was shot down in the Iraqi-Iranian war in the early 1990s. Saved by a group...
- Author:Cooper, Andrew ScottSummary:
Author Andrew Scott Cooper traces Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's life from childhood through the fall of Iran's Pahlavi dynasty. At once intimate and sweeping, The Fall of Heaven recreates in stunning detail the dramatic and final days of one...
- Author:Azar, ShokoofehSummary:
Set in Iran in the decade following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, this moving, richly imagined novel is narrated by the ghost of Bahar, a thirteen-year-old girl, whose family is compelled to flee their home in Tehran for a new life in a...
- Author:Howitt, BruceSummary:
Ari Lazarus is a member of an elite Israeli secret agency, which hunts terrorists around the world and eliminates them. After Israel has been threatened with being "wiped off the map" by Iranian leaders and generals, Ari and...
- Author:Saniee, Parinoush, Khalili, SaraSummary:
Selected as one of World Literature Today's 75 Notable Translations of 2013 Spanning five turbulent decades in Iranian history, from before the 1979 revolution, through the Islamic Republic, and up to the present, The Book of Fate is a...
- Author:Satrapi, MarjaneSummary:
A memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic revolution.
- Author:Wright, Robert A.Summary:
In November 1979, the American embassy in Tehran was invaded by a group of radical students who took 54 workers hostage. However, six diplomats secretly escaped. Here, author Robert Wright chronicles the escapees' harrowing ordeal...