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The Pomegranate Lady and Her Sons

ALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library

English - November 06, 2013 03:00 - 1 hour - 67.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 49 ratings
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In her new collection of selected stories, Taraghi—one of Iran’s best-known and most critically acclaimed authors—draws on her childhood experiences in Tehran, adult exile in Paris, and subsequent returns to post-revolution Tehran. Her stories are, as Azar Nafisi writes, “filled with passion, curiosity, empathy, as well as mischief—definitely mischief.” Listen in as Taraghi shares from The Pomegranate Lady and Her Sons, made fully accessible to the English-speaking audience for the first time.