Woman Master
Publisher: Cutting Edge Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781306563093; 9781908122278; 9781908122803; 9781908122292; 9781908122285
Subjects: Fiction; Social conditions; Social life and customs; FICTION; Cultural Heritage; Manners and customs
Description: An elegantly written tale of one Persian woman's journeyshe marries for love, and eventually loses everything and must start again. The author says I wanted to tell a Persian story and I wanted Westerners to hear it the way an Iranian might hear it. Strong, independent, and always with an opinion of her own, Pari grew up in an environment where women were expected to marry young and bear children, but she elopes with a wealthy older man who already has one wife. Her husband is Master to a large rural village community and his new wife Pari becomes the Zan-Arbab, the Woman Master. Realizing that she is unable to have children, Pari lives vicariously through the villagers, who teach her important life lessons. Her somewhat idyllic life changes drastically when, soon after her husband takes another wife who can bear him children, he loses all his money and is forced to sell his villages. Pari flees to her cousin Zeeba's house in Tehran where she finds that the family is full of conflicts and strong personalities waiting to collide. Though she is treated as a servant responsible for cooking, cleaning, and other menial tasks, Pari is the one person Zeeba and the other women in the household turn to in times of trouble. As time goes by Pari sees changes in the status of women in Iranian society and the new challenges this brings to young and old alike. Throughout the turmoil, she maintains a steady resilience and in doing so suggests that age-old cultural traditions have much to offer the Iran of today.
Table of contents: title: Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Part 1; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Part 2; Chapter 16; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; Chapter 19; Chapter 20; Chapter 21; Chapter 22; Chapter 23; Chapter 24; Chapter 25; Chapter 26; Chapter 27; Chapter 28; Chapter 29; Chapter 30; Chapter 31; Chapter 32; Chapter 33; Chapter 34; Chapter 35; Chapter 36; Chapter 37; Chapter 38