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VIS + I
Farideh Razi - -
Vis + I is an interior monologue during a harrowing cab ride through the streets of Tehran as Pardis rushes to the airport to stop her lover from leaving. Multiple narrative threads and flashbacks, real and imaginary voices—primarily that of Vis, the heroine of the Persian epic romance, Vis + Ramin—interweave in this gritty, postmodern love story. Vis + I poses ...
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, ...
The Big Book of In-Your-Face Gay Etiquette
Daniel Curzon - -
In some places it is the best of times to be gay. In other places it is the worst. If you have chosen to be gay - and why wouldn't you? - remember to 1) be proud, but watch your back at all times, and 2) to be good, except when you shouldn't. This is the 3rd and completely updated 21st Century Edition of the classic, ...
Burmese Days
George Orwell - -
Burmese Days is the first novel by English writer George Orwell, published in 1934. Set in British Burma during the waning days of Empire, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as part of British India, it is ”a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj.” At the centre of the novel is John Flory, ”the lone and lacking individual trapped within a bigger ...
