Brilliant Authors Beyond Borders…
Uniquely Portable Magic
Climbing Over Grit
Marzeeh Laleh Chini - - Abnoos Mosleh-Shirazi
The year is 1957. Though they were from a wealthy and well-respected family, Najma’s parents decided to marry off her sister at the age of nine. While crying for her and pitying her, Najma knew little that she would be next. Six years later, eleven-year-old Najma is resentful and unforgiving because her parents married her ...
Self-Portrait in Bloom
Niloufar Talebi - -
In the aftermath of World War II, “a new dynamism” was taking shape in Persian poetry. Award-winning translator Niloufar Talebi explains how Iranian poets were increasingly instrumental in “freeing Persian poetry from the state of decline and stagnation.” Into this backdrop emerges the poet Ahmad Shamlou in this part-memoir, part-biography, ...
Madame de Treymes
Edith Wharton - -
"Madame de Treymes exhibits Wharton's subtle realism and is one of her works depicting Americans living in France. It tells of Fanny de Malrive, née Frisbee, a once free-spirited New Yorker now married to a French marquis. Like several of Wharton's female protagonists, she is trapped within an unhappy marriage as well as being constricted by the ...
Mauro Martino - Poems
Mauro Mevlud Martino - -
In the early 70's, when in his early 20's and still a university student, Mauro Mevlud Martino was gaining some acclaim as a poet. He published poems in Canadian periodicals and magazines and was looked upon favorably by literary critics in the field of poetry and from professors. In fact, it was at that time in Toronto that he had a ...
