Title: Touba and the Meaning of Night
Description: From a distinctly Iranian perspective, *Touba and the Meaning of Night* reveals ongoing tension between rationalism and mysticism, tradition and modernity, male and female, East and West. Speaking in an idiom unique to its author and indicative of a new tradition in Persian women's writing, the epic also defies Western stereotypes of Iranian women and Western expectations of Iranian literary form.
Subjects: Depression in women, Fiction, Shame, Iranian history, Fiction, fantasy, contemporary, Iran, fiction, Fiction, visionary & metaphysical
Places: Iran
Time periods: 20th century