Censoring an Iranian Love Story (43 page)
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Authors: Shahriar Mandanipour
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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Translation copyright © 2009 by Sara Khalili
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of
Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto
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Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
This translation is based on an unpublished Farsi work by Shahriar Mandanipour.
Copyright © 2008 by Shahriar Mandanipour
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mandani’pur, Shahriyar.
Censoring an Iranian love story: a novel / Shahriar Mandanipour; translated from the Farsi
by Sara Khalili.
p. cm.
Translation of previously unpublished Persian novel.
eISBN:
978-0-307-27196-9
I. Khalili, Sara. II. Title.
pk6561.m236c46 2009
891.55’33—dc22 2008041270
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product
of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons,
living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - Death to Dictatorship, Death to Freedom
Chapter 3 - Censored Testicles
Chapter 4 - The Bottomless Well
Chapter 5 - I’d Rather be a Sparrow than a Snake
Chapter 6 - I Love You but I Never Want to See You Again
Chapter 10 - The Arabs are Coming
Chapter 11 - Damask Rose’s Stamen
Chapter 12 - A Man with Three Wives
Chapter 14 - A Cobra at the Window
Chapter 15 - The Hashashin in Tehran
Chapter 18 - The Freedom of Insanity
Chapter 19 - Crime and Punishment
Chapter 20 - The Snow Queen of Tehran
Chapter 21 - “Canaries Roasted on a Fire of Lilies and Jasmines …”: (Ahmad Shamlu)