Strange Times, My Dear: The Pen Anthology Of Contemporary Iranian Literature

Edited By: Nahid Mozaffari & Ahmad Karimi Hakkak

Despite severe difficulties imposed by social, political, and economic upheavals, as we ll as war, repression and censorship, a veritable cultural renewal has taken place in Iran over the past 25 years- not only in literature but in music, art and cinema.
Over 40 writers from 3 generations contributed to this rich and varied collection, which provides a much-needed window into a largely undiscovered branch of world literature.