![]() ![]() The novel tells a story of love, loss, grief, and rebirth. Her multifaceted identity axiomatically complicates her positionality as an Iranian writer only, making The Stationery Shop the perfect novel for my project. She’s traveled extensively and lived in Kenya, Germany, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. I picked Kamali’s latest novel for Iran because I have heard a lot of Kamali who was born to Iranian parents in Turkey. Okay, I know, this post is supposed to be about Marjan Kamali’s The Stationery Shop–so let me move on. It is not only a revolutionary novel that challenges the normative practice of gender policing and gendered politics in Iran–but Parsipur’s use of magical realism and Islamic imagery, as well as her impeccable writing also make the novel a feminist classic. ![]() Originally published in 1998, Women Without Men is a fascinating contemporary narrative about five Iranian women who break the mould of the heteropatriarchal society that perpetually confines women. ![]() As part of my Reading around Asia project, I was tempted to re-read Shahrnush Parsipur’s Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran, which is one of my favorite books from Iran. ![]()
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