num_pages: 512
description: "With this bold, insightful novel Parsipur makes a stylishly original contribution to modern feminist literature." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Parsipur should be admired both as a courageous woman who endured jail and torture and as a writer and innovator." --Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in TehranNow available in paperback, this complex epic captures the changing fortunes of Iranian women in the twentieth century from the era of colonialism to the rule of two shahs. The Iranian best-selling author of eleven books, including Women Without Men, Shahrnush Parsipur now lives in exile in the United States.
language: Persian
title: طوبا و معنای شب
titlecomplete: طوبا و معنای شب
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Feminism, Womens, Novels, Asia, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Iran, Cultural
ratings_count: 850
publisher: اسپرک