Books
Sept 14-18, 1998 / Shahrivar 23-27, 1377
Book of the week
* History: Shah of Shahs
Past picks
* Rural: Children
of Deh Koh
* Political poetry: Iraj
Mirza
* Novel: Persian Brides
* Tourism: Iran:
A guide
* Rumi: The Love
Poems
* History: Four books about
Persepolis
Do you want your book advertised or featured
here? Send review copies to: The Iranian, PO Box 34842, Bethesda, MD, 90827
email us
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?
Go to top
Children of Deh Koh : Young Life in an Iranian Village
By Erika Friedl
1997, Syracuse University Press
Go to top
The
Complete Poems of Iraj Mirza
From Iranbooks, Bethesda, Maryland.
See feature
Go to top
Persian Brides : A Novel
By Dorit Rabinyan, Yael Lotan
The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lowenthal: ...she writes
with the wise and leisurely assurance of a town bard recounting communal
myths. In this translation by Yael Lotan, Rabinyan's marvelously digressive
style and rich prose give the story the feel of a nightlong wedding feast.
Persian
Brides is an auspicious debut.
The New Yorker: The characters, comic, sodden, and sly, spill
out of this small book like clowns in a ragtag circus.
The San Francisco Chronicle, Sherri Hallgren: ...a dazzling and
assured first novel ... Persian
Brides at once demystifies and mesmerizes.
Go to top
Iran:
Tourist guide
Lonely Planet Iran (2nd Ed)
By Paul Greenway
Go to top
The
Love Poems of Rumi
Deepak Chopra (Editor), Fereydoun Kia (Translator)
Four books about Persepolis
Aramaic Ritual Texts from Persepolis
Raymond A. Bowman / Hardcover / Published 1970
Persepolis and Ancient Iran
Ursula Schneider / Paperback / Published 1976
Persepolis Fortification Tablets
(Oriental Institute Pubns, No 92)
Richard T. Hallock, Richard Halcock / Hardcover / Published 1969
Persepolis, Third : The Royal Tombs and Other Monuments
(Oriental Institute Pubns. Er. No.
Erich F. Schmidt / Hardcover / Published 1970
Go to top
