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Farnoosh Moshiri

Auteur de Against Gravity

5+ oeuvres 165 utilisateurs 6 critiques

A propos de l'auteur

Farnoosh Moshiri was born into a literary family in Teheran where she grew up. She received her Master's degree in drama from the University of Iowa, then in 1979 returned to Iran. In March 1983 she was one of a group of playwrights and actors who were ordered to sign an agreement to obey the afficher plus dictates of the new regime. They refused, and Moshiri went underground, eventually escaping to Afghanistan and then India. She has lived in Houston since 1987 and is a graduate of the University of Houston's creative writing program. There she won the Barthelme Memorial Fellowship afficher moins

Œuvres de Farnoosh Moshiri

Against Gravity (2005) 78 exemplaires
The Bathhouse (1891) 47 exemplaires
At the Wall of the Almighty (2000) 25 exemplaires
The Drum Tower (2014) 12 exemplaires

Oeuvres associées

Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond (2013) — Contributeur — 146 exemplaires
Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian American Writers (2013) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
Exotic Gothic: Forbidden Tales from Our Gothic World (2007) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires

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Interesting. This book reminds me a bit of "Night" by Elie Wiesel.
 
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SMBrick | 4 autres critiques | Feb 25, 2018 |
Wow.
What a book! To say that I loved it, may be a bit odd, considering the nature of the contents. But I did.
I couldn't put it down, was taken by this story of a young girl, taken prisoner an held for some time in The Bathhouse, that now serves as a prison.

It is horrible to read what she and other women go through. To read of smashed hopes, stoned women, shot men, of the tortures they are suffering and to have confirmed once again, how badly people can treat one another based on religious ideas.
But I'm glad I read it.
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BoekenTrol71 | 4 autres critiques | Jul 19, 2015 |
An incredible book. A must read.
 
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mjennings26 | 4 autres critiques | Apr 3, 2013 |
I finished reading this book several days ago. But resisted myself to journal until the story I just read sunk in.

I found this story very disturbing. It is well written in simple language. An ideology derived from religion and mix in with politics is a recipe for disaster. Especially in this part of the world. At the end the reader will have a lasting memory of the narrator's horendous experienced in captivity. A book worth reading.
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bcBulan-Purnama | 4 autres critiques | Jul 21, 2010 |

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Œuvres
5
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3
Membres
165
Popularité
#128,476
Évaluation
3.8
Critiques
6
ISBN
20
Langues
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