1001: Persiranian Stories Of Love And Revenge

Texto en inglés. Tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Como nuevo. In this intimate and tumultuous historical fiction, Iran plays a starring role under a stage name, 'Persiran.' We engage with its history through three generations of a vividly drawn aristocratic family called the Poonakis, beginning with twin princes who are devoted to each other, and ending in modern times - after the Khomeini revolution - with another set of twin brothers who are mortal enemies. The family - like the monarchy and the fledgling constitution - is doomed, as the clerical vision of building the kingdom of God on Earth prevails. The story has several narrators, whose fates by the end will intersect. The book's title refers to nine critical nights of storytelling - transposed into binary code: 1001, playing on the classic '1001 Nights' of Scheherazade. The episodes of the novel take place in a palace, a mosque, a village, a harem