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- ISBN: 1-894692-03-9 $19.95
- 192PP
- Fiction/Islamic Studies
- 2002
Afsaneh's Moon shines hauntingly on the lives of four young Iranians up against the barriers of fundamentalist Islam. Afsaneh, Negar, Ramin and Bahram entwine in a novel that winds from the pond genies of a Persian childhood to mysteries beneath the still blue waters of a summer lake in Ontario.
Written as a quartet, Afsaneh's Moon offers a window on progressive Iranians working for change who faced arrest, torture and execution when the religious state took control. Compelling scenes of life in post-revolutionary Iran capture the tension of life in a punitive religious state. But Yalfani also cleverly illustrates how extraordinary times are used by the unscrupulous to cover their everyday crimes.
Afsaneh's Moon spins through a layered story revealing intricate and surprising motivations behind lives lived under enormous pressure in this timely, gripping novel of Islamic revolution.
"THINK YOU KNOW REVOLUTION? Imagine what it would feel like trying to work for change while caught between the Shah's rock and the Ayatollah's hard place... a fascinating novel."
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