On Monday, February 6, there will be a bilingual reading of Faribā Vafī's An den Regen in Farsi/German at SLUB Dresden, followed by an audience discussion. Lotfali Semino, Chairman of the Iranian Cultural Association in Dresden, will moderate and then translate the audience discussion with the author. With her first novel Parande-ye-man (2002, Ger. Kellervogel, 2013) she created a novelty in modern Iranian authorship: balancing between a language-aesthetically reduced narrative of a housewife and mother who fights for a self-determined life, she negotiates social taboos such as estranged mother-child relationships, unfulfilled marriages…

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