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Touba and the Meaning of Night
Paperback
Series: Women Writing the Middle East
General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781558615571
Publisher: Feminist Press
Published: Jan 1 2008
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.06
Height: 1.08 Width: 5.65 Depth: 8.64
Language: English
An Iranian woman forges her own path through life in this stylishly original contribution to modern feminist literature (Publishers Weekly).
After her father's death, fourteen-year-old Touba takes her family's financial security into her own hands by proposing to a fifty-two-year-old relative. But, intimidated by her outspoken nature, Touba's husband soon divorces her. When she marries again, it is to a prince with whom she experiences tenderness and physical passion and bears four children--but their relationship sours when he proves unfaithful. Touba is granted a divorce, and as her unconventional life continues, she becomes the matriarch of an ever-changing household of family members and refugees . . .
Hailed as one of the unsurpassed masterpieces of modern Persian literature (Iranian.com), Touba and the Meaning of Night explores the ongoing tensions between rationalism and mysticism, tradition and modernity, male dominance and female will--all from a distinctly Iranian viewpoint. Defying both Western stereotypes of Iranian women and expectations of literary form, this beautiful novel reflects the unique voice of its author as well as an important tradition in Persian women's writing.
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