308) pays for his idealistic sentiments with his life, when he is assassinated on a trip to his village. Yusof “unwilling to submit to pressure from the occupying forces and their Iranian supporters, and also untraditional in his just treatment of peasants,” (Hillmann, p. A web of political intrigues and hostilities is created that leads to the novel’s explosive and tragic end. The plot is set in motion when Zari’s husband, Yusof, driven by patriotic fervor, and frustrated by the indecency of local opportunists and the harsh behavior of the occupying forces, refuses to sell his estates’ crops either to the foreign invaders, or to the Qašqāʾi tribal leaders, Malek Rostam and Malek Sohrāb, who are in the midst of a rebellion against the central government. The household also includes Zari’s son, Ḵosrow, her twin daughters, and her sister-in-law. Much of what is not directly experienced by Zari is recounted through accounts of social visits and other encounters between Zari and her friends and relatives (M. The story is narrated through the eyes of Zari, a happily married woman whose behavior, as she struggles to protect her family, runs counter to that of the traditionally marginalized Persian woman (Sprachman, p. It chronicles, in 23 chapters, the life of a middle class landowning family in this period, when everyday life had been brought into turmoil by the presence of the occupying troops and the pressure they brought to bear on the economic and social fabrics of the society, with soaring food prices contributing to tension and strife in the local community. Suvashun is set in Shiraz, in the last years of World War II, after the invasion by the Allied troops and the occupation of southern Iran by the British army.

Tehran, 2012), and the first novel in Persian written by an Iranian female fiction writer. Ghanoonparvar, Savushun, A Novel About Modern Iran, 1990 and Roxane Zand, A Persian Requiem, 1991, FIGURE 1), the most acclaimed novel of the prominent writer Simin Daneshvar (b.

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