a? ? A very engaging saga...a? ? a? ? Washington Post Book World a?
? A powerfully resonant work...a? ? a? ? Publishers Weekly a? ?
Outstanding foreign fiction...a? ? a? ? USA Today Savushun
(pronounced a? ? sa-voo-shoona? ? ) is a folk tradition, surviving
in Southern Iran from an undateable pre-islamic past, that conjures
hope in spite of everything. The novel chronicles the life of a
Persian family during the World War II Allied occupation of Iran.
It is set in Shiraz, a town which evokes images of Persepolis and
pre-islamic monuments, the great Persian poets, the shrines, sufis
and nomadic tribes all within a historical web of the interests,
privilege and influence of foreign powers, corruption, incompetence
and arrogance of persons in authority. The story is seen through
the eyes of Zari, a young wife, and mother, who copes with her
idealistic husband while struggling with her desire for traditional
family life and her need for an individual identity. simin
daneshvar lives and continues to write in Iran.
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