Touba and the Meaning of Night

"(With this) bold, insightful novel . . . (Shahrnush) 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 Tehran
Now available in paperback, this complex epic captures the changing fortunes of Iranian women in the twentieth century from the era of colonialism through the rule of two shahs to the 1980 Islamic Revolution.

Product details

• Authors: Shahrnush Parsipur
• Assisted by: Havva Houshmand (Translation), Kamram Talattof (Translation), Kamran Talattof (Translation)
• Publisher: The Feminist Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• No. of pages: 367
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 481 g
• Series: Women Writing the Middle East; Women Writing the Middle East
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature