· In fact, at its best, “Censoring an Iranian Love Story” becomes a kind of Kundera-like rumination on philosophy and politics, exploring the nervous interface between the Author: Michiko Kakutani. Censoring an Iranian Love Story-Shahriyār Mandanīʹpūr Shahriar Mandanipour, a contemporary and controversial Iranian writer, presents his first novel written in English. Seamlessly entwining two related narratives, Mandanipour unfolds the tale of an Iranian writer attempting to pen a love story set in present-day Iran. Censoring an Iranian Love Story opens a revelatory window onto what it's like to live, to love, and to be an artist in today's Iran. The novel entwines two equally powerful narratives. A writer named Shahriar-the author's fictional alter ego-has struggled for years against the all-powerful censor at the Ministry of.
The main characters of Censoring an Iranian Love Story novel are John, Emma. The book has been awarded with The Athens Prize for One of the Best Works of Shahriar Mandanipour. published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Hardcover format for. InCensoring an Iranian Love Story,a writer (also named Shahriar Mandanipour and the author's alter ego) tries to write the story of Sara and Dara, a young couple in love, and At its best, Censoring an Iranian Love Story becomes a Kundera-like rumination on philosophy and politics [that] playfully. The writer explains the complicated censorship history in Iran and the some times over-the-top similes fashioned by long dead Iranian poets as a way of dancing I hope I'm not giving the impression that this is a tough book to read. It is actually the opposite. Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar.
W hen a story comes to an Iranian writer's mind, he or she is doomed to think of two different versions: the story as it is, and a bowdlerised version that might avoid the scissors of official. Inventive, darkly comic and profoundly touching, Censoring an Iranian Love Story celebrates both the unquenchable power of the written word and a love that is doomed, glorious, and utterly real. Related collections and offers. Shahriar Mandanipour, an Iranian film critic and the editor of a literary journal in Iran, was not allowed to publish fiction from to “Censoring an Iranian Love Story” is his.
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