Reading and discussion with Nava Ebrahimi and Fariba Vafi

Tuesday, Nov. 17, 7:00 p.m. Reading The dream of Tibet by Fariba Vafi translated from Farsi by Jutta Himmelreich My neighbor's paradise by Nava Ebrahimi In Fariba Vafi's The dream of Tibet, young Scholeh suffers from lovesickness and flees to her half-sister Shiva 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?…

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