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The Woman Who Read Too Much: A Novel
Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
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Description for The Woman Who Read Too Much: A Novel
Paperback. Men died when women began to read. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 26. Weight in Grams: 420.
Gossip was rife in the capital about the poetess of Qazvin. Some claimed she had been arrested for masterminding the murder of the grand Mullah, her uncle. Others echoed her words, and passed her poems from hand to hand. Everyone spoke of her beauty, and her dazzling intelligence. But most alarming to the Shah and the court was how the poetess could read. As her warnings and predictions became prophecies fulfilled, about the assassination of the Shah, the hanging of the Mayor, and the murder of the Grand Vazir, many wondered whether she was not only reading history but writing ... Read more
Gossip was rife in the capital about the poetess of Qazvin. Some claimed she had been arrested for masterminding the murder of the grand Mullah, her uncle. Others echoed her words, and passed her poems from hand to hand. Everyone spoke of her beauty, and her dazzling intelligence. But most alarming to the Shah and the court was how the poetess could read. As her warnings and predictions became prophecies fulfilled, about the assassination of the Shah, the hanging of the Mayor, and the murder of the Grand Vazir, many wondered whether she was not only reading history but writing ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Redwood Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
420g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804799485
SKU
V9780804799485
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About Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
Bahiyyih Nakhjavani grew up in Uganda, was educated in the United Kingdom and the United States, and now lives in France. She is the author of The Saddlebag and Paper as well as non-fiction works about fundamentalism and education. Her novels have been published in French, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Greek, Turkish, Hebrew, Russian, and Korean. She was praised in ... Read more
Reviews for The Woman Who Read Too Much: A Novel
Nakhjavani throws into her tale such a mixture of humor, exotic sensuousness and lofty omniscience that I was left spellbound like Scheherezade's sultan.
Tablet Bahiyyih Nakhjavani is best-really very effective-when she writes of the sandstorms and delusions of our own imperfect Earth.
The Washington Post Although set in the Victorian era, Nakhjavani's portrait is ... Read more
Tablet Bahiyyih Nakhjavani is best-really very effective-when she writes of the sandstorms and delusions of our own imperfect Earth.
The Washington Post Although set in the Victorian era, Nakhjavani's portrait is ... Read more