This collection of stories from the Iran-Iraq War is the second work by Habib Ahmadzadeh to appear in English translation. The first was the novel "Chess with the Doomsday Machine" (Mazda, 2008). The nine stories in the collection, which was compiled...

"Appointment in Aleppo" was first published in Persian in 2004, although Modarres-Sadeghi had completed the writing of the novel two years earlier, in other words, in the wake of the tragic events of the morning of September 11, 2001, that is, the...

This is a love saga spanning here and the herefater; it is a journey of spirits toward immortality. Together, two lovers explore the city of Hamadan in northwest Iran, where the tomb of one of history's most remarkable thinkers, Avicenna [ Abuali Sina], lies.

Azat Angum is the first translation into Armenian of Leonrado P. Alishan's collected short stories, published earlier under the title "Free Fall," by this press. It contains forty-eight short stories and an introduction by the translator, Gourgen...

NOTE: Also available in Kindle format at lower price. 1- Click on "Select Format" 2- Select "eBook Download" 3- Select "AMAZON KINDLE" Thirty years have passed since a shattered Nilufar Hartman, pregnant and betrayed,...

"Blue Logos" is the second major work of prominent Iranian writer, Shahrnush Parsipur, to be published in an English translation. In this a magical tale, Parsipur engages the reader in Western and Eastern philosophy, art, literature, mythology,...

Considered Hushang Golshiri’s magnum opus and the culmination of all his work in terms of his worldview and more importantly his vision of art and creativity, Book of Jinn is a masterpiece of Persian fiction that has been compares with James Joyce's Ulysses...

Chess with the Doomsday Machine (Shatranj ba Mashin-e Qiamat) is a novel by Habib Ahmadzadeh (b. 1964) about the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88). It is set in Ahmadzadeh’s native Abadan, a city located on an island near the Persian Gulf. Because of its...

This is a historical novel, a novel of facts. The characters and the plot are fiction, but historical events and political figures are real. It is set against a dramatic revolution in Iran whcih led to the overthrow of the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and the...

Doran is a novel by Iranian fiction writer, Ruhangiz Sharifian, who in her work in general, and in this novel in particular, delves into the experiences of Iranian immigrants since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and the subsequent Iran-Iraq war. A sequel...