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Fereshteh Sholevar, the author of this short story collection accompanies you on an intriguing journey towards unexpected, sweet, and poignant moments of life. She takes you through passages of sorrow, oppression, deception, perversion, love, hate, ignorance, and giddy instances. You will not put the book down before you've read it to the end!
A book of bilingual poetry in which the even-numbered pages contain a poem in French and the odd-numbered pages contain the same poem in English. The poems are adapted from but not always directly translated from the originals, and both versions are written by the much-published and well traveled poet Fereshteh Sholevar.
The one constant throughout the protagonist's development toward some sort of independent personality is her ambivalent relationship with her tailor husband, Ebbie. (A cheating chauvinist not beyond reform.) Author Sholevar portrays their domestic life in modern Iran, on the cusp of the Shah's overthrow, with nuanced subtlety, wry humor, and a colorful sense of both the grotesque and mundane. Complicated by wealthy benevolent patrons and nefarious gangster-like neighbors (who can't abide the thought of an enlightened woman), all tangled up with the happenstance of Samira's own infidelity, the arc and scope of this story is ambitious---as is this first novel, in general, by poet Sholevar. William Burrison, English teacher, playwright, and poet
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Another Breath is a collection of short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry written by Rosemont College MFA faculty and alumni.
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