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Oct 26-30, 1998 / Aban 4-8, 1377

 Book of the week

* Novel: Scent of Saffron

Past picks

* Poetry: Hafez, Philosopher of Love
* Sadegh Hedayat:
Blind Owl
* Romance:
Nizami's Layla and Majnun
* History: Shah of Shahs
* Rural:
Children of Deh Koh


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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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Children of Deh Koh : Young Life in an Iranian Village

By Erika Friedl
1997, Syracuse University Press

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