Product Description: In the early days of the fundamentalist revolution in Iran, a seventeen-year-old girl is arrested because of her brother's involvement with leftist politics. She is placed in a makeshift jail, a former bathhouse, in which other women are also being held captive...read more

Product Description: In the early days of the fundamentalist revolution in Iran, a seventeen-year-old girl is arrested because of her brother's involvement with leftist politics. She is placed in a makeshift jail, a former bathhouse, in which other women are also being held captive...read more

In mid-1980s Houston, the lives of three very different people--Madison Kirby, a dying intellectual; social worker Ric Cardinal, tormented by the son he cannot save; and Roya, an Iranian immigrant struggling to build a new life for herself and her daughter--collide, in a novel of shared loss, struggle, and the possibility of love. Reader's Guide included. Original.

Product Description: Awarded the Black Heron Press Prize for Social Fiction. In the dozen stories in The Crazy Dervish and the Pomegranate Tree, Farnoosh Moshiri combines social and political insight with the mythology of her native Iran. Her earlier books, The Bathhouse (which also won the Black Heron Press Prize for Social Fiction) and At the Wall of the Almighty, were set in Iran...read more

When a seventeen-year-old girl is arrested during the early years of the fundamentalist revolution in Iran, she describes the torment she and the other female inmates endure.

When a seventeen-year-old girl is arrested during the early years of the fundamentalist revolution in Iran, she describes the torment she and the other female inmates endure.

Product Description: This series is designed to bring to North American readers the once-unheard voices of writers who have achieved wide acclaim at home, but are not recognized beyond the borders of their native lands. With special emphasis on women writers, Interlink's Emerging Voices series publishes the best of the world's contemporary literature in translation or original English...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)