BOOKS - Shirin and Salt Man
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707526
707526
Shirin and Salt Man
Author: Nilofar Shidmehr
Year: January 1, 2008
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.2 MB
Language: English
Year: January 1, 2008
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.2 MB
Language: English
Shirin and Salt Man is a novella in verse, which tells the story of a young modern day Iranian woman, Shirin. She is an ordinary girl from Kermanshah born before the Islamic Revolution, who imagines herself to be an incarnation of princess Shirin, depicted in the ancient Persian classic Shirin and Khosro. At first she tries to shape her life to that of the myth, but later decides to change her destiny and become the author of her own story. She leaves her husband and runs away with the Salt Man, a 1700-year-old mummy on display at the Iranian National Museum in Tehran. The poems form a compelling narrative of the life of a contemporary Iranian woman whose voice has been muted by Khosro, her fundamentalist and traditional husband.