Although Persian is one of the world's oldest languages, in its modern form it is still spoken by more than forty million people in Iran and by more than twenty million people elsewhere. These volumes provide students from beginning to intermediate levels with a mastery of modern Persian (also known[...]

" With this] bold, insightful novel . . . Parsipur makes a stylishly original contribution to modern feminist literature."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)"Parsipur should be admired both as a courageous woman who endured jail and torture . . . and as a writer and innovator."--Azar Nafisi, auth[...]