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Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In this collection, the fantastical and the visceral merge in tales filled with opposites: the boredom and brutality of war; modern urban life and rural traditions; tender desire and sudden violence. Mandanipour delivers fierce social critique in stories steeped in the beauty of an ancient land and culture.
2) The colonel
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In a small Iranian town on a dark rain-soaked night, the Colonel paces back and forth waiting for the inevitable knock on the door. The secret police take him to the tortured body of his youngest daughter, for the Islamic revolution is devouring its own children. This shocking diatribe leaves no taboo unbroken.
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Persian
Description
After being let go from his job on an ostrich farm a man leaves his small village to find work in the big city. As a motorcycle taxi driver, he soon becomes consumed with his passengers' lives, and is swept up in a world of greed. Now it is up to his family back home to help restore his caring and generous nature.
7) About Elly
Publisher
Iranian Movies
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A group of friends spend their vacation on the shore of the Caspian Sea in Iran. Sepideh, who is organizing everything, has decided to include Elly, hoping that she will be interested in Ahmad, who is recently divorced. The vacation is spent in high spirits until Elly suddenly disappears.
8) A separation
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Persian
Description
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
9) The night
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Persian
Description
"When a couple become trapped in a deserted hotel with their young child, disturbing events force them to face the secrets they have from each other."