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Martyrdom Street
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
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Description for Martyrdom Street
Paperback. Set during the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the ensuing Iran-Iraq War of 1980-89, this novel chronicles the lives of three Iranian women, Fatemah, Nasrin, and Yasaman. These ordinary women tell their intimate stories of love, loss, betrayal, and hope in interwining narratives that unfurl simultaneously in America and Iran. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 204.
Set during the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the ensuing Iran-Iraq War of 1980â€""1988, the novel Martyrdom Street chronicles the lives of three Iranian women, Fatemeh, Nasrin, and Yasaman. These ordinary women tell their intimate stories of love, loss, betrayal, and hope in intertwining narratives that unfurl simultaneously in America and Iran. Kashani-Sabet’s characters endure both the familiar struggles of family relationships and searing political upheavals. A mother and daughter come to terms with the burdens of separation imposed by politics and exile. A young woman grapples with the haunting memories of an assassination. The poignant confessions of these skillfully ... Read more
Set during the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the ensuing Iran-Iraq War of 1980â€""1988, the novel Martyrdom Street chronicles the lives of three Iranian women, Fatemeh, Nasrin, and Yasaman. These ordinary women tell their intimate stories of love, loss, betrayal, and hope in intertwining narratives that unfurl simultaneously in America and Iran. Kashani-Sabet’s characters endure both the familiar struggles of family relationships and searing political upheavals. A mother and daughter come to terms with the burdens of separation imposed by politics and exile. A young woman grapples with the haunting memories of an assassination. The poignant confessions of these skillfully ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
130
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815609759
SKU
V9780815609759
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About Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet is associate professor of history and director of the Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946 and Conceiving Citizens: Women, Sexuality, and Religion in Iran
Reviews for Martyrdom Street
"Kashani-Sabet gathers together the scattered narratives of women's lives in both Iran and the United States, and weaves them together in a story that says much about the ways women continually reinvent and remake themselves and gives voice to their resilient spirit. A wonderful debut." -Persis Karim, author of Let Me Tell You Where I've Been: New Writing by Women ... Read more