The special edition of the "World Receiver" leaderboard, published in the context of the ongoing protests in Iran, includes two of our titles among the reading recommendations!
About the book:
The search for freedom, the desire for self-determination - central themes in Vafi's novels - also play inThe Dream of Tibet an important role.
The young Scholeh suffers from lovesickness and flees to her half-sister Schiwa and her husband Javid. While Scholeh is plagued by her own worries, she begins to question the happiness of the others: Is Schiwa happy with her husband? Does Djawid dream bigger than a family? What do intimacy, adultery and criticism of authority mean?
and those days by Forugh Farrochsad.
About the book:
In her work, Farrochsād goes against both literary and social conventions, thereby breaking all taboos. It does not adhere to the traditional forms of poetry and thus transfers Iranian poetry into the modern age. Her work gives women a voice in Iranian male society by describing the inner life of a woman from a female perspective in her poems for the first time. In doing so, she uses a sober realism and unreserved honesty.
Here is the article: CURRENT SPECIAL EDITION
Current special edition
On the occasion of the ongoing protests in Iran and their brutal suppression by the mullahs' regime, a special edition of the list of the best in "World Receiver" is being published with reading recommendations about Iran.
Since 2008, the »world receiver« has been nominating translations of works of fiction from all over the world in order to make outstanding literary voices known in the German-speaking world.
The current special edition of the list of the best "world receivers" focuses on Iran, because the protests there deserve - and need - the attention of the world.
An enlightening voyage of discovery: Iranian or Iranian-born literature tells a polyphonic and diverse story about the conditions against which the protests are directed and about the worlds that can be discovered behind the scenes of power in society.
The special edition was curated by Anita Djafari and Ulrich Noller. Active and former jurors on the Weltfernsehen best list and other experts on Persian literature provide personal reading recommendations: nine novels, four volumes of poetry and one graphic novel. Since this is not a ranking list as usual, the titles are arranged randomly.
