Stories from Tehran الإنجليزية 2025

Thirteen stories originally written in Persian in Tehran between 1980 and 1998, and translated into English by the author herself. From the afterword to the book, by Mahdi Ganjavi: The stories in this volume represent a selection of Molavi’s fiction written up to 1998, prior to her immigration and the beginning of her exilic life in Canada. Stories from Tehran stands among Fereshteh Molavi’s most essential works. With the addition of three new stories—Where is Shemr?, All the Days of God, and Appointment at Home—the collection grows in emotional intensity and thematic reach. Each piece draws from a distinct geography and sensibility: the first, a child’s search for justice and meaning in the mythic residues of Karbala and contemporary cruelty; the second, a slow-burning meditation on female endurance, bodily collapse, and the quiet dignity of a woman’s laboring life in Baluchistan; and the third, a chamber piece of war-haunted intimacy, where a father and daughter cling to stories and each other amid the threat of annihilation. Together, these stories deepen Molavi’s exploration of memory, care, violence, and the aching desire to remain human amid history’s erasures. They remind us that literature, like mourning, is an act of fidelity to what refuses to be silenced.