Persis M. Karim Knihy

An anthology of writings by an emerging generation of Iranian women in exile features more than one hundred selections, many of which have never before been published, by Gelareh Asayesh, Tara Bahrampour, Firoozeh Dumas, Roya Hakakian, and many others, who speak out on the subjects of exile, family, love, gender, and resistance. Simultaneous.

A modern literary masterpiece, Women Without Men creates an evocative and powerfully drawn allegory of life in contemporary Iran. Internationally acclaimed writer Shahrnush Parsipur follows the interwoven destinies of five women including a prostitute, a wealthy middle-aged housewife and a schoolteacher as they arrive by different paths to live together in a garden in Tehran. Shortly after the 1989 publication of Women Without Men in her native Iran, Parsipur was arrested and jailed for her frank and defiant portrayal of women's sexuality.