TEHRAN – The audio version of Iranian author Simin Daneshwar’s best-selling novel “Sabshun” has been released in Tehran.
The audiobook, narrated by Sima Derakshesh, has been produced by Avaname in collaboration with Karazmi Publishing, Mehr reported on Monday.
A further 40 narrators are also collaborating on the project, including Sahar Beiranvand, Faryad Moussavian, Fariba Motekases, Nahid Mosremi and Hassan Homai.
“Sabshun” chronicles the life of a Persian family during the Allied occupation of Iran during World War II.
The setting is Persepolis and Shiraz, a town that evokes images of pre-Islamic monuments, great poets, shrines, Sufis, and nomadic tribes historically intertwined with the interests, privileges, and influence of foreign powers. . Corruption, incompetence, and arrogance of those in power. paternalistic landowner-peasant relationship. Tribalism. and the fear of starvation.
The story is told through the eyes of Zari, a young wife and mother who deals with her idealistic and uncompromising husband while struggling with her desire for a traditional family life and need for personal identity.
The southern family’s heroic stand against British colonial intrigues ends with the husband’s murder, and the wife’s determination to continue the fight.
Dhaneshwar’s style is sensitive and imaginative, following cultural themes and metaphors.
Within the basic Iranian paradigm, the characters play roles specific to their personalities.
Sabshun is a unique literary work that transcends the boundaries of the historical community in which it was written, and at the same time is the best single work for understanding contemporary Iran.
Although written before the Islamic Revolution, the work masterfully depicts the social and historical forces that gave pre-revolutionary Iran its unique sense of despair and a new sense of hopelessness, making it difficult for outsiders to understand. is not fully understood.
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