{"product_id":"9781787191853","title":"Tales of Iran","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese evocative short stories put together in historical order, present a vivid mosaic of the dramatic, comic, lyrical, and tragic. Spanning 100 years, the tales are wonderfully diverse – a young girl is forced to marry a feudal lord much older than her, a village dandy falls in love with a beautiful woman in a foreign land, the treacherous role played by the people of Tehran when the democratically elected government of Dr Mosaddegh was overthrown by the help of the CIA, young boys in a remote village are asked to take part in horrific, absurd and comical religious ceremonies and festivals, a little boy who becomes intensely preoccupied with the secret lives of marionettes, a deeply religious adolescent who fails to have sex with a prostitute, a woman who is banned from singing under Sharia Law, a pigeon-fancier who falls in love with a young woman whose fanatic family cause a lot of problems for him – but together these tales create a sense of separate destinies entwined across time and space.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Generation Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47062387392752,"sku":"9781787191853","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781787191853_p0.jpg?v=1763737986","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781787191853","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}