LIBROS DEL AUTOR: feridon rashidi

6 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: feridon rashidi

  • Fables, Allegories and Tales
    Feridon Rashidi
    This collection contains diverse fables, allegories and tales. Through the fables animals, representing people, tell relate cultural characteristics, the ways of thinking and ways of communication among the Iranians with black sense of humour. What happens when a jackass is asked to judge which of two birds sing better. What happens when two hungry wolves try to explain the mea...
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    18,76 €

  • The Bigamist
    Feridon Rashidi
    Haaji Morteza lives with his wife and closest relatives in Tehran. As his wife, Ashraf Khanum, cannot have a child, his mother decides to find him a second wife. Her sights are set on Faati, the stunning but evil-tempered daughter of a bath house attendant. Haaji Morteza, secretly lusting after Faati’s charms, finally, with her consent, marries Faati. Haaji orders a carpenter t...
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    26,17 €

  • Sharia Law Shakespeare
    Feridon Rashidi
    A year after the establishment of the Islamic Republic in Iran, a theatrical troupe tries to stage the Shakespearean play, Othello. Behrouz, a writer and producer of plays, bravely pursues his goal in spite of severe Islamic censorship. His amateur group faces numerous and often laughable problems when the mollah from the Ministry of Islamic Culture and Guidance orders that the...
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    16,45 €

  • Tales of Iran
    Feridon Rashidi
    These evocative short stories put together in historical order, present a vivid mosaic of the dramatic, comic, lyrical, and tragic. Spanning 100 years, the tales are wonderfully diverse – a young girl is forced to marry a feudal lord much older than her, a village dandy falls in love with a beautiful woman in a foreign land, the treacherous role played by the people of Tehran w...
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    19,42 €

  • Tales of Iran 2
    Feridon Rashidi
    These captivating stories, by turn tragic and humorous, are about the lives of ordinary people in Tehran and in a remote, poverty-stricken village. A worn-out peasant, whose old mother is dying, snatches the only shabby ball from a small group of boys who play noisily in a dusty path outside his hovel, a henpecked man, bullied non-stop by his wife, falls in love with an attrac...
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    14,92 €

  • The Outcast
    Feridon Rashidi
    It is the summer of 1978 and ominous storm clouds are gathering over Iran and its ruler, the Shah. But Kazem, a young man in love, is oblivious to politics. Maryam, the girl of his dreams, will marry the man her father has chosen for her unless Kazem acts to prevent the match. Penniless and newly out of prison, he’s not got much to offer a prospective bride. But that doesn’t st...
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    19,73 €