Category: Ibex Publications

The Mourners of Bayal is a collection of eight interrelated stories centered around the people of Bayal, an imaginary Iranian village in the middle of nowhere. This work is a penetrating allegory of the manners, beliefs, hopes, and desperations of rural Iranians in the early seventies. The Mourners of Bayal is a very early example of magical realism. It precedes the works of masters of the genre, José Saramago, and Gabriel García Márquez. The most famous of the eight stories is the fourth (they are numbered without a title) which was adapted into a popular movie, The Cow. While away, Mashdi ...
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A Thousand Years of Persian Rubiyyat

By: Saberi, Reza

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Bethesda, MD, Ibex Publishers : 2002

Seller ID: 1588140024

ISBN-13: 9781588140029

Binding: Softcover

Condition: English

Malakut and Other Stories by Bahram Sadeqi

By: Sadeqi, Bahram (author) Basmenji, Kaveh (translator and introduction) Yarshater, Ehsan (foreword)

Price: $32.00

Publisher: Bethesda, Ibex Publishers : 2012

Seller ID: 9781588140845

ISBN-13: 978-1-58814-084-5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: English

A man who doesnÆt recognize his own face, an aristocrat who keeps his amputated limbs in jars on the shelf, an infant that commits suicide, a cat that is secretly writing a novel, a rooster that rebels against fateùthose are some of the characters that make Bahram SadeqiÆs stories intriguing, incomparable and inimitable. Sadeqi is an original story-teller who depicts familiar facts and mundane realities in such a way that shocks us to the core and makes us call everything into question. With a subtle irony reminiscent of Poe, Kafka and Marquez, he engages us in an intricate quest to explore...
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The Cannon [Tup]

By: Saedi, Gholam Hossein

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Bethesda, Ibex Publishers : 2012

Seller ID: 9781588140685

ISBN-13: 978-1-58814-068-5

Binding: Softcover

Condition: English

THE CANNON is the first and best of Gholam-Hossein Saedi’s novels. It has an unwavering focus on a single character, the independent iterant Mullah Mir Hashem who is clever and manipulative. Based on historical events, the novel is set in northwestern Iran in the early twentieth century. It features tribal supporters of the Constitutional Revolution; Russian Cossacks who are backing the status quo; and Mullah Mir Hashem. The novel gives a glimpse into the tensions and machinations of the revolution, where each party is attempting to outwit, out-maneuver and otherwise deceive the other. For...
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Bichareh Esfandiyar HC

By: Saidi-Sirjani, Ali-Akbar

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Bethesda, Maryland, Ibex Publishers : 1992

Seller ID: 0936347244

ISBN-13: 9780936347240

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Persian (Farsi)

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Tah Basat

By: Saidi-Sirjani, Ali-Akbar

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Bethesda, Maryland, Ibex Publishers : 1991

Seller ID: 9680936347233

ISBN-13: 9780936347233

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Persian (Farsi)

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The Love Poems of Ahmad Shamlu

By: Shamlu, Ahmad

Price: $59.50

Publisher: Bethesda, Maryland, Ibex Publishers : 2006

Seller ID: 1588140377

ISBN-13: 9781588140371

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: English

My Persian Haft Seen: An Iranian Nowruz Tradition

By: Shirzad, Susanne

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Bethesda, MD, Ibex Publishers : 2018

Seller ID: 9781588141798

ISBN-13: 9781588141798

Binding: Softcover

What do you need to set up a haft seen table for the Persian New Year celebration? My Persian Haft Seen takes a charming look at the individual items that together create the ornamental display that is at the heart of the Nowruz holiday celebrated in Iran, Afghanistan and other Persian communities around the world. Beautiful colored drawings and sweet short descriptions introduce the young reader to the beloved holiday tradition. A guide for parents gives an overview of the meaning of the haft seen table.
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