New York. Europa Editions, 2025. 528 pages.All stories begin in ambiguity. This simple declaration is central to the beginning of The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen…
Shokoofeh Azar
- Credit: Duncan Cumming / Flickr Shokoofeh Azar, an Iranian writer living in exile in Australia, traces the women’s uprising forty-three years in the making as Iranians throw off the restr…
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An Iranian detainee hangs up her laundry on the fence at the Construction camp detention center used for younger men and women and children. February 26, 2012, on Christmas Island, Australia.…
- New York. Europa Editions. 2020. 245 pages. Shokoofeh Azar’s The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree is an astoundingly imaginative work of fiction with deep roots in Persian culture.…