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The Conference of the Birds
Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, allegorical …
My Uncle Napoleon
A teenage boy makes the mistake of falling in love with the much-protected daughter of "Napoleon," the curmugeonly patriarch of a large and extended Iranian family in 1940s Tehran. …
Vis and Ramin
Believed by scholars to be the inspiration for "Tristan and Isolde", "Vis and Ramin" was written between 1050 and 1055 and is considered the first epic Persian romance. At the …
The Mirror of My Heart
An incredible collection of verse by women poets writing in Persian, many translated into English for the first timeFrom Iran and India, to Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, from …
Layli and Majnun
One of the great works of Persian literature in a masterful new translationCalled 'the Romeo and Juliet of the East' by Lord Byron, Layli and Majnun is a classic tale of …
Faces of Love
Places Lost and Found
The Hudson Review has always had an international focus. Travel and reports from abroad have figured prominently in the journal, including essays on exotic and picturesque locales, …
Khosrow and Shirin
Khosrow and Shirinis a love storyby Nezami Ganjavi--considered the greatest medieval Persian romance poet--based on historical characters of the seventh-century Iranian court. …
Shahnameh
The definitive translation by Dick Davis of the great national epic of Iran—now newly revised and expanded to be the most complete English-language editionA Penguin Classic Dick …
The Little Virtues
In this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, Natalia Ginzburg explores both the mundane details and inescapable catastrophes of personal life with the grace and …
Little Virtues
'I really love and admire The Little Virtues.' -- Zadie Smith'Ginzburg gives us a new template for the female voice and an idea of what it might sound like.' -- Rachel Cusk'As far …