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* Life & death: Soon

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* Poetry: Nizami's Layla and Majnun
* Novel: A Persian Requiem
* Food:
Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies
* Novel:
Scent of Saffron
* Poetry:
Hafez, Philosopher of Love


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Soon: Tales from Hospice

By A. G. Mojtabai

Zoland Books, 1998

The Boston Globe writes: Mojtabai had led an unconventional but cosmopolitan life in New York, Iran, and Cambridge, where she held an appointment at Harvard; in Amarillo she unexpectedly found home. For several years she has been a volunteer worker in the hospice at St. Anthony's Hospital in Amarillo, and the 17 miraculous stories in ''Soon'' come out of that experience... READ MORE

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Deer Table Legs

Poems by Katayoon Zandvakili

The University of Georgia Press, 1998

Zandvakili lives in Piedmont, California, and writes for Publishers Weekly. Her poems have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Five Fingers Review, Hawai'i Review, and the anthology A World Between: Poems, Short Stories, and Essays by Iranian-Americans... SEE FEATURE

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A Persian Requiem

By Simin Daneshvar
Translated by Roxane Zand

The first published novel by an Iranian woman and one of the most widely read novels in Iran.

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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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Deer Table Legs

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The University of Georgia Press, 1998

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Three Generations of an Iranian Family

By Rouhi Shafii

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