Women Without Men
Shahrnush Parsipur author Faridoun Farrokh translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Publishing:26th Mar '26
£12.99
This title is due to be published on 26th March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This internationally acclaimed masterpiece traces the interwoven destinies of five women – including a wealthy middle-aged housewife, a sex worker and a schoolteacher – as they arrive by different paths to live together in an abundant garden on the outskirts of Tehran.
Drawing on elements of Islamic mysticism and recent Iranian history, this unforgettable novel depicts women escaping the narrow confines of family and society, and imagines their future living in a world without men.
Translated from Persian by Faridoun Farrokh.
Parsipur is a courageous, talented woman, and above all, a great writer -- Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis
Using the techniques of both the fabulist and the polemicist, Parsipur continues her protest against traditional Persian gender relations in this charming, powerful novel * Publishers Weekly *
Gracefully brutal... Parsipur writes with the surface simplicity of a tale-teller. But she drops in prosaic, stinging touches of realism - of gossip, envy, suppressed thoughts and misunderstandings * New York Review of Books *
ISBN: 9780241792513
Dimensions: 216mm x 135mm x 20mm
Weight: 300g
112 pages