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The Man Who Snapped His Fingers
Winner of the 2001 French Human Rights Prize, French-Iranian author Hachtroudi’s English-language debut explores themes as old as time: the crushing effects of totalitarianism and the infinite power of love. She was known as “Bait 455,” the most famous prisoner in a ruthless theological republic. He was one of the colonels closest to the Supreme Commander. When they meet, years later, far from their country of birth, a strange, equivocal relationship develops between them. Both their shared past of suffering and old romantic passions come rushing back accompanied by recollections of the perverse logic of violence that dominated the dictatorship under which they lived. A novel of ideas, exploring power and memory by an important female writer from a part of the world where female voices are routinely silenced.
Twelfth Imam's a Woman?
In this novel, Fariba Hachtroudi returns to Iran, after thirty years of exile, to take the country's pulse. She paints a picture that is surreal, magical, and darkly funny-but also appalling. Black humor makes her pen a redoubtable weapon. Her heroine and narrator, Anahita, is a journalist living in Teheran; she is thirty years old, the same age as the Iranian revolution. She is sent to report on the pilgrimage to Jamkaran, a center of beliefs and superstitions from another age, and in particular, the mosque's well-the supposed hiding place of the Twelfth Imam, whose return is eagerly awaited by the Shiites. To her surprise, the young woman discovers that in a country where women are stoned, the famous Imam is an Imamess and a feminist. The novel provides a key to understanding the current situation in Iran.
Orientalism Versus Occidentalism
This book highlights the role of cultural representations and perceptions, such as when Iran is represented in the French media as a rogue state obsessed with its nuclear programme, and when France is portrayed in the Iranian media as a decadent and imperialist country. Here, Laetitia Nanquette examines the functions, processes, and mechanisms of stereotyping and imagining the "other" that have pervaded the literary traditions of France and Iran when writing about each other. She furthermore analyzes Franco-Iranian relations by exploring the literary traditions of this relationship, the ways in which these have affected individual authors, and how they reflect socio-political realities. With themes that feed into popular debates about the nature of Orientalism and Occidentalism, and how the two interact, this book will be vital for researchers of Middle Eastern literature and its relationship with writings from the West, as well as those working on the cultures of the Middle East.
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
This richly-imagined novel is narrated by the ghost of Bahar, a thirteen-year-old girl, whose family is compelled to flee their home in Tehran for a new life in a small village. They hope to preserve their intellectual freedom and their lives, but soon find themselves caught up in the post-revolutionary chaos that sweeps across their ancient land and its people. Written in the lyrical magical realism style of classical Persian story-telling, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree speaks of the power of imagination when confronted with cruelty, and of our human need to make sense of trauma through the ritual of storytelling itself. Portentous dragonflies, forest jinns and mermaids suffuse the narrative that stand in stark contrast to the material circumstances that alter the character's lives. Through her unforgettable characters, Azar weaves a timely and timeless story that juxtaposes the beauty of an ancient, vibrant culture with the brutality of an oppressive political regime.
Iran, les rives du sang
Une vieille femme est morte mystérieusement à Téhéran. Depuis Paris où elle est réfugiée, sa fille guide l'enquête d'un policier à travers les venelles d'une société que la dictature religieuse a rendue folle. Ecrit en français par une Iranienne, ce roman chargé de fureur et de dérision entraîne le lecteur au coeur de l'Iran contemporain.
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