Touba and the Meaning of Night
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By Shahrnush Parsipur, Havva Houshmand (Translator), Kamran Talattof (Translator), Houra Yavari (Afterword)
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An Iranian woman forges her own path through life in this “stylishly original contribution to modern feminist literature” (Publishers Weekly).
After her father’s death, fourteen-year-old Touba takes her family’s financial security into her own hands by proposing to a fifty-two-year-old relative. But, intimidated by her outspoken nature, Touba’s husband soon divorces her. When she marries again, it is to a prince with whom she experiences tenderness and physical passion and bears four childr...






















