Azar's 2020 novel, "The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree" is set in Iran, deploying magic realism to narrate the incidents surrounding the life of a family in Iran during the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The novel was originally written in Farsi, and was first published in English translation by the Wild Dingo Press in Australia in 2017. The translator has chosen to remain anonymous. It was nominated for the Stella Prize for Fiction in Australia in 2018. It was also on the long list for the International Booker Prize in 2020, and Azar is the first Iranian author to have been nominated for the prize. The book was republished for audiences outside Australia by Europa Editions.