Full name: Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran

Author: Shahrnush Parsipur Year: 1989 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Feminism Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781558614529 9781558617537 1558614524 1558617531

Shortly after the 1989 publication of Women Without Men in her native Iran, Shahrnush Parsipur was arrested and jailed for her frank and defiant portrayal of women's sexuality. Now banned in Iran, this small masterpiece was eventually translated into several languages and introduces U.S. readers to the work of a brilliant Persian writer. With a tone that is stark, and bold, Women Without Men creates an evocative allegory of life for contemporary Iranian women. In the interwoven destinies of five women, simple situations such as walking down a road or leaving the house become, in the tumult of post-WWII Iran, horrific and defiant as women escape the narrow confines of family and society only to face daunting new challenges. Now in political exile, Shahrnush Parsipur lives in the Bay Area. She is the author of several short story collections including Touba and the Meaning of Night. Similar books: Touba and the Meaning of Night by Shahrnush Parsipur To Keep the Sun Alive by Rabeah Ghaffari The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi In the Walled Gardens by Anahita Firouz The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer Caspian Rain by Gina B. Nahai The Inhabited Woman by Gioconda Belli The First Wife by Paulina Chiziane Down Among the Women by Fay Weldon Braided Lives by Marge Piercy The Bleeding Heart by Marilyn French In Memoriam to Identity by Kathy Acker The Fall of the Imam by Nawal El Saadawi Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith by Gina B. Nahai Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther A Persian Requiem by Simin Daneshvar Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji Song of a Captive Bird by Jasmin Darznik My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad