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Censoring an Iranian Love Story
Censoring an Iranian Love Story | Shahriar Mandanipour
In his first novel to appear in English, one of Iran’s most acclaimed writers shows what it’s like to live and love there today. In a country where mere proximity between a man and a woman may be the prologue to deadly sin, where illicit passion is punished by imprisonment, or even death, telling that most redemptive of human narratives becomes the greatest literary challenge. If conducting a love affair in modern Iran is not a simple undertaking, then telling the story of that love may be even more difficult. Shahriar Mandanipour evokes a pair of young lovers who find each other—despite surreal persecution and repressive parents—through coded messages and internet chat rooms; and triumphantly their story entwines with an account of their creator’s struggle. Inventive, darkly comic and profoundly touching, Censoring an Iranian Love Story celebrates both the unquenchable power of the written word and a love that is doomed, glorious, and utterly real.
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prowlix
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I've been MIA for awhile, I'm looking at changing jobs and feeling kind of conflicted. I'm hoping to get back to reading more today!

And I am loving this book! The author has a way of addressing the reader and also his main characters with such wit. This is one of the better pieces of contemporary satire I've read in a long time. I anticipate this being one of my top reads this year.

Sace I hope you start feeling better. 7y
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prowlix
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The idea that the naming of your child could become an act of censorship...

Laura317 Wow. 7y
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prowlix
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Morning reading 📖
The bold section is the romance unfolding and the unbold type is the author telling you how he's trying to write the romance that will pass Iran's censorship laws. This has been on my tbr for was too long!

rockpools This sounds fascinating! 7y
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balletbookworm
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So I got caught by the library sale...but it was only 3$! 😂 (and the condition of all these is really nice, the Mahfouz appear unread)

batsy Nice! The tagged book has been on my TBR for some time. 7y
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prowlix
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A mini library #bookhaul this morning! I had to request Censoring from another branch but the other two I picked up by browsing. I'm pretty excited about my #translation #tbr 🤓

readordierachel Natsuo Kirino is great. 8y
prowlix @ReadOrDieRachel I really liked Grotesque and wanted to try some more. Out wasn't available but I really want to read that one too 8y
readordierachel @prowlix I really liked Grotesque too, although Out is my favorite of hers. 8y
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ComradeMao
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Packing 3 books for my trip to Kazakhstan! :)

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nothisisridiculous
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An often bizarre and fascinating look at censorship in Iran, this book is both an attempted romance novel, and the story of the author who's desperately trying to not get in trouble for writing it.