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In a Voice of Their Own: A Collection of Short Stories
by Iranian Women Written since the Revolution of 1979 includes
eighteen stories written by more than a dozen women during the last twenty years,
some of them well-known writers and others just establishing their careers. In these
stories, most never before available in translation and rendered here into readable English
that captures the style and flavor of the original Persian, Iranian women speak in their own
voice to the western reader about marriage, sex, politics, exile and the place of women in
Iranian society. A scholarly introduction and bibliography for further reading help
contextualize the stories for the western reader, providing an outline of the history of
Iranian women in this century and the role of the women writers in modern Persian literature.
An important book for anyone interested in contemporary Iran, world literature, or women's
studies.
