Fiction

Mage has published in English two of the greatest classic Persian novels of all time: Savushun by Simin Daneshvar and My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad. Mage’s fiction collection also includes Stories from Iran, which features the work of the best Iranian writers, amongst them: M. A. Jamalzadeh, Sadeq Hedayat, Bozorg Alavi, Beh’azin, Sadeq Chubak, Ebrahim Golestan, Jalal al-e Ahmad, Ahmad Mahmud, Jamal Mir-Sadeqi, Gholam Hosayn Nazari, Esma’il Fasih, Gholam Hosayn Sa’edi, Nader Ebrahimi, Bahram Sadeqi, Hushang Golshiri, Fereydun Tonokaboni, Goli Taraqqi, Mahshid Amir-Shahi, Mahmud Dowlatabadi, Shahrnush Parsipur, Moniru Ravanipur. Stories from Iran, written during the last 75 years and arranged in chronological order, spans a period in Iranian history from the Constitutional Revolution (1906-11) through the long reign of the Pahlavis (1925-79), the upheavals of the 1950s, the 1979 Islamic Revolution, to the present.

GRID VIEW LIST VIEW

King of the Benighted

By Manuchehr Irani (Houshang Golshiri), Translated by Abbas Milani In Fiction Tagged In 20th Century, Books by Abbas Milani, and Houshang Golshiri.

$12.95

Pub. Date : May 1, 1995

“A thoroughly contemporary work, a lament for a lost utopia and an elliptical and bleakly horrific account of incarceration and torture in the Iran of the Mullahs.” – Times Literary Supplement.[read more>>]

King of the Benighted (Kindle/iPad Version)

By Manuchehr Irani (Houshang Golshiri), Translated by Abbas Milani In Fiction Tagged In 20th Century, Books by Abbas Milani, and Houshang Golshiri.

$9.99

Pub. Date : January 20, 2011

Daneshvar’s Playhouse: A Collection of Stories

By Simin Daneshvar In Fiction Tagged In 20th Century, Feminism, Feminist, Short Stories, Simin Daneshvar, and Women.

$20.00

Pub. Date : March 31, 2008

“In five intriguing stories, the formal detachment of Daneshvar’s prose reinforces her subtle revelation of repressive features in Iranian society. The author, one of the few wellknown women writers in Iran, is a feminist opposed to both political tyranny and religious fanaticism, themes obliquely indicated here.[read more>>]