The enlightenment of the greengage tree / Shokoofeh Azar.
Publisher: Melbourne, Australia : Wild Dingo Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: ix, 268 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780987381309
- 098738130X
- Revolution (Iran : 1979)
- Families -- Fiction
- Novel -- English -- Australia -- 21st century -- Texts
- Magic realist fiction
- Magic realism (Literature) -- Fiction
- Magic realism (Literature)
- Magic realism (Literature)
- Families
- Islam and civil society
- Families -- Iran -- Fiction
- Islam and civil society -- Fiction
- Iran
- Iran -- History -- Revolution, 1979 -- Fiction
- Iran -- History -- 1979-1997 -- Fiction
- Australian
- A823/.4 23
- Shortlisted, The Stella Prize, 2018.
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks | 823.4 AZA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library and ILL | 2018 Stella Prize shortlist | 68082 |
"A novel" --Cover.
"Queensland Literary Awards, finalist"--Sticker on NLA N copy.
This book is an extraordinarily powerful and evocative literary novel set in Iran in the period immediately after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Using the lyrical magic realism style of classical Persian storytelling, Azar draws the reader deep into the heart of a family caught in the maelstrom of post-revolutionary chaos and brutality that sweeps across an ancient land and its people. The enlightenment of the Greengage Tree is really an embodiment of Iranian life in constant oscillation, struggle and play between four opposing poles: life and death; politics and religion. The sorrow residing in the depths of our joy is the product of a life between these four poles.
Shortlisted, The Stella Prize, 2018.
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