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"Filled with passion, curiosity, empathy, as well as mischief - definitely mischief." - Azar NafisiRich in characters both whimsical and deeply poignant, humorous and real, the stories of Goli Taraghi have made her one of the world's most beloved modern writers from Iran. A best-selling author in her native country and widely anthologized in america and around the world, Taraghi's work is currently made fully accessible with an English-speaking audience in this standout and long-awaited volume of selected stories.Drawing on childhood encounters in Tehran through the reign of the Shah, her exile in Paris, and her subsequent visits to Tehran following the revolution, Taraghi develops characters and tales that linger in one's mind. In the title story, a female traveling from Tehran to Paris is obliged to help an old woman - the Pomegranate Lady - find her way to her fugitive sons in Sweden. In "The Gentleman Thief," a fresh kind of polite, apologetic thief emerges from the wreckage of the revolution. In "Encounter," a woman's world is upended when her former maid becomes her jailer. And in "The Flowers of Shiraz," several teenagers finally manages to coax a shy schoolmate out of her shell - and then once again encounter tragedy.Similar to the work of Nadine Gordimer and Eudora Welty, Taraghi's stories capture universal encounters of love, loss, alienation, and belonging - all with an irresistible sense of life's absurdities.
