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Now a major motion picture, The Last Temptation of Christ is a monumental fictional reinterpretation of the Gospels by one of the giants of modern literature. It follows in the lines of The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago in reinterpreting the journey of Jesus from his house... (learn more about this book)
Savushun is a folk tradition, surviving in Southern Iran from an undatable pre-Islamic past, that conjures hope in spite of everything. Savushun chronicles the life of a Persian family during the Allied occupation of Iran during World War II. It is set in Shiraz, a town which evokes images of... (learn more about this book)
Her Eyes was originally published in 1952 and is recognized by many scholars as Bozorg Alavi's finest novel. Alavi, a leading contemporary Persian writer and a champion of the Left, is well known for his political activism, which led to his imprisonment in Iran under the regime of Reza Shah.... (learn more about this book)
Rumi's Masnavi is widely recognized as the greatest Sufi poem ever written, and has been called "the Koran in Persian." The thirteenth-century Muslim mystic Rumi composed his work for the benefit of his disciples in the Sufi order named after him, better known as the whirling dervishes. In... (learn more about this book)
Adevarata masura a fortei creatoare a lui Liviu Rebreanu o atesta, asadar, romanele lui. Primul in timp este Ion, aparut in 1920, an care ramane, datorita acestei imprejurari, o data de prima insemnatate in istoria prozei romanesti.
Inainte de Ion, romanul romanesc inregistrase cateva... (learn more about this book)
Ramas vreme de aproape sase decenii in manuscris, primul roman al lui Mircea Eliade a constituit la aparitie o adevarata revelatie pentru publicul romanesc. La sfarsitul anilor '80, iubitorii literaturii sale descopereau astfel un cu totul alt scriitor decat cel cu care se obisnuisera pana... (learn more about this book)
A contemporary version of the Cain and Abel story, this novel was greeted with widespread praise when it was first published in Iran in 1989. Set in the northern town of Ardabil in the aftermath of the Second World War, the story begins as Urhan Urkhani, a prominent citizen of the town, sets... (learn more about this book)