Savushun: A Novel about Modern Iran

by Simin Daneshvar, M R Ghanoonparvar, Brian Spooner

Overview

â A very engaging saga...â â Washington Post Book World â A powerfully resonant work...â â Publishers Weekly â Outstanding foreign fiction...â â USA Today Savushun (pronounced â sa-voo-shoonâ ) is a folk tradition, surviving in Southern Iran from an undateable pre-islamic past, that conjures hope in spite of everything. The novel chronicles the life of a Persian family during the World War II Allied occupation of Iran. It is set in Shiraz, a town which evokes images of Persepolis and pre-islamic monuments, the great Persian poets, the shrines, sufis and nomadic tribes all within a historical web of the interests, privilege and influence of foreign powers, corruption, incompetence and arrogance of persons in authority. The story is seen through the eyes of Zari, a young wife, and mother, who copes with her idealistic husband while struggling with her desire for traditional family life and her need for an individual identity. simin daneshvar lives and continues to write in Iran.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780934211314
Publisher:	Mage Publishers
Publication date:	10/01/2001
Series:	Persian Classics
Pages:	326
Sales rank:	1,117,295
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

What People are Saying About This

Hamid Enayat

"It is one of the most outstanding works of fiction in Persian literature."

Wallace Stegner

"Simin Daneshvar is a writer of the first order. She does not belong only to Iran, but to the world."