page_title: Jasmin Darznik
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caption_attribution_description: English: Jasmin Darznik, author of the New York Times bestselling book The Good Daughter, reads and discusses her new novel Song of a Captive Bird. This story is based on the life of Iran’s most iconic and controversial female poet Forough Farrokhzad. She was a revolutionary, Sylvia Plath-like figure who gave Iranian women permission to be bold, angry and rapturous.
context_page_description: Jasmin Darznik is the author of two books, The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life, which became a New York Times bestseller and Song of a Captive Bird, a novel inspired by the life of Forugh Farrokhzad, Iran's notorious woman poet. A New York Times Book Review "Editors' Choice" and a Los Angeles Times bestseller, Song of a Captive Bird was praised by The New York Times as a "complex and beautiful rendering of [a] vanished country and its scattered people; a reminder of the power and purpose of art; and an ode to female creativity under a patriarchy that repeatedly tries to snuff it out." Darznik's books have been published in seventeen countries. Her next book, a novel set in 1920s San Francisco, is forthcoming from Random House/Ballantine.
context_section_description: Jasmin Darznik is the author of two books, The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life, which became a New York Times bestseller and Song of a Captive Bird, a novel inspired by the life of Forugh Farrokhzad, Iran's notorious woman poet. A New York Times Book Review "Editors' Choice" and a Los Angeles Times bestseller, Song of a Captive Bird was praised by The New York Times as a "complex and beautiful rendering of [a] vanished country and its scattered people; a reminder of the power and purpose of art; and an ode to female creativity under a patriarchy that repeatedly tries to snuff it out." Darznik's books have been published in seventeen countries. Her next book, a novel set in 1920s San Francisco, is forthcoming from Random House/Ballantine.
caption: Jasmin Darznik discusses her work in 2018
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