Reading guide for censoring an iranian love story by. Ostensibly a tale of romance, the book delves deeply into themes of censorship as the author struggles, in the text, with writing a love story that hell be able to get past irans ministry of culture and islamic guidances office of. A search query can be a title of the book, a name of the author, isbn or anything. Written by an esteemed iranian author, shahriar mandanipour, censoring an iranian love story is a darkly comic and profoundly touching story that weaves an intricate tale of love between the constraints of contemporary iranian government and the cultural relationships between men and women there. In his first novel to appear in english, one of irans most important living fiction writers the guardian shows what its like to live and love there today.
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Shahriar mandanipour, a contemporary and controversial iranian writer, presents his first novel written in english. Mandanipour wrote censoring an iranian love story while holding an international writers project fellowship residency at brown university, and is now a visiting scholar at. A love story is contained within it, but solely as a vehicle for the author to write an extended set of stories and personal accounts about life in iran, and particularly the censorship of artistic works. Censoring an iranian love story paperback the elliott bay. In his first novel to appear in english, one of irans most important living fiction.
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Censoring an iranian love story, written in persian with the intention of translation into english, also points to a more recent trend whereby iranian authors generate english. An avid fan of ann tylers, i looked forward to her upcoming book, digging to. Michiko kakutani, the new york times a love story that is convincingly, achingly impossible in a place where men and women cannot even look at each other in. In 2009, mandanipour published censoring an iranian love story, his first novel to be translated into english. Censoring an iranian love story paperback the elliott. In this playful tale, both writer and censor appear as fictional characters. Jan 04, 2010 coming across a great book is truly a gift that needs to be shared. However, if you have paid attention, you will have noticed that i, with that notorious cunning of a writer, have described the scuf. In the novel, mandanipour employs stream of consciousness.
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