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We consider Faribā Vafī to be one of the most important and at the same time most idiosyncratic literary voices in Iran The Dream of Tibet for her most mature work to date.

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Cornelia Jetter vom EKZ.Library service:

A world collapses for the Iranian nurse Scholeh when Mehrdad, her great love, enters into an arranged marriage. Her pain is overwhelming, lifelessShe vacillates between jealousy, hatred and exhaustion. How much better is Scholeh's sister Shiva, who is married to Javid and has two children. Schiwa's marriage is stable, supported by calm love. Alone Djawid's mother Forough, who lives in the house and has revived since the death of her hated father, is a challenge. Sadegh, a friend of Djawid's, picks up Scholeh from work. She gets in his car and the two talk. She learns that Sadegh also has an unfulfilled love that torments him. When her sister's marriage falls apart after a miscarriage, the situation escalates and Scholeh has a disturbing realization.

Fixpoetry:

Relationships between people are complicated. Very complicated. You live together, although sometimes you neither can nor want to. Scholeh, the protagonist of Fariba Vafi's novel The Dream of Tibet, observes this complex web of relationships within her own family as she desperately tries to overcome her lovesickness after Mehrdad simply disappeared from her life. more

Volker Kaminski:

Fariba Vafi is one of the most popular contemporary novelists in Iran. In her unmistakably lucid, almost plain style of writing, in her new novel she once again deals with the question of female identity and the role of women in the changing Iranian society. more

Litprom podcast by Sonja Hartl with Anita Djafari and Jutta Himmelreich: hereit goes to the episode