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The Woman Who Read Too Much
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Gossip was rife in the capital about the poetess of Qazvin. Some claimed she had been arrested for masterminding the murder of the grand Mullah, her uncle. Others echoed her words, and passed her poems from hand to hand. Everyone spoke of her beauty, and her dazzling intelligence. But most alarming to the Shah and the court was how the poetess could read. As her warnings and predictions became prophecies fulfilled, about the assassination of the Shah, the hanging of the Mayor, and the murder of the Grand Vazir, many wondered whether she was not only reading history but writing it as well. Was she herself guilty of the crimes she was foretelling? Set in the world of the Qajar monarchs, mayors, ministers, and mullahs, this book explores the dangerous yet luminous legacy left by a remarkable person. Bahiyyih Nakhjavani offers a gripping tale that is at once a compelling history of a pioneering woman, a story of nineteenth century Iran told from the street level up, and a work that is universally relevant to our times.
"Mordant and seethingly intelligent." —Sam Sacks,
"An engrossing story." —Gayatri Devi,
"Haunting . . . reminds us all that whether Tudor, Qajar, or Clinton, behind every throne is a queen mother, wife, and sister who runs the show." —Davar Ardalan,
"Nakjavani offers a philosophically complex yet lyrically wrought examination of the eternal struggle for women's rights." —Carol Haggas,
"Nakhjavani deftly transforms an incomplete history into legend. . . . An expertly crafted epic." —
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“I get the importance of the book, it truly was an interesting plot but I guess it wasn't for me, I felt disconnected at times and I really tried to get into it but I couldn't completely”
About Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
grew up in Uganda, was educated in the United Kingdom and the United States, and now lives in France. She is the author of
and
as well as non-fiction works about fundamentalism and education. Her novels have been published in French, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Greek, Turkish, Hebrew, Russian, and Korean. She was praised in the
as a "superb Persian novelist," and the French translation of
was identified, in 2007, as "one of the best three books" of the year.
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