Books
Nov 2-6, 1998 / Aban 11-15, 1377
Book of the week
* Food: Ancient
Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies
Past picks
* Novel: Scent
of Saffron
* Poetry: Hafez, Philosopher of Love
* Sadegh Hedayat: Blind Owl
* Romance: Nizami's
Layla and Majnun
* History: Shah of Shahs
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New Food of Life:
Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies
By Najmieh Khalili Batmanglij
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Scent of Saffron:
Three Generations of an Iranian Family
By Rouhi Shafii
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The Spiritual Wisdom of Hafez : Teachings of the Philosopher
of Love
Translated by Haleh Pourafzal, Roger Montgomery
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Blind Owl
By Sadegh Hedayat
Translated by D. P. Costello
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Nizami's Layla and Majnun
Translated by Colin Turner
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Xenophon's Imperial Fiction : On the Education of Cyrus
Translated by James Tatum
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Shah of Shahs
By Ryszard Kapuscinski
Vintage Books, 1992
A reader writes: CNN meets Sheherezade This is one of my favorite books
of all time. It gave me more information about Iran than everything I read
in newspapers or heard on the radio for all the years of the hostage crisis
and since. Despite being translated from the Polish, it reads like poetry
or myth, and manages to convey a gut level understanding of what it is
to be Iranian. Along the way it pulls up all kinds of other issues, and
illuminates them with great compassion and insight.What happens to the
ruler of a poor third world country when oil suddenly brings unimaginable
wealth? What is it like to live with the fear of the secret police permeating
every thought and action? What mysterious factor causes a fearful hopeless
population to finally revolt against its opressors?
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