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Under the Carefree Afternoon Sun
by Jeyran Gahan
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A different narrative of love between a Jewish girl and a Muslim boy
This novel is a narration of the life of the Jewish minority in Iran and their coexistence with Muslims. It’s the story of a girl called Mona living in a fanatic and strict Jewish family. She sings and plays the Taar. She meets Shahriar, a Muslim musician from a traditional family. Love sparkles and the story begins. According to Islamic and Jewish law, their marriage is not allowed unless one of them converts, yet conversion is forbidden in both religions. Mona’s aunt, Javahir-Jan, is a wise woman who also plays the Taar and is her only true supporter in the family. When young, she was also involved in a forbidden love story. Mona’s rebellious sister, Edna, who is bold enough to follow her own way, takes traditions for nothing and moves to Israel to buy her freedom. Mona is bound to make a choice: either forget about love or converts and marries Shahriar. Should she choose to go to Edna’s way or Javahir-Jan’s? Is there any other choice leading to a different destiny?
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This love story concerns a religious conflict which is considered a taboo in the Iranian society. The writer elaborates on different forms of prejudice in his poetic narration while keeping away from mottos and manifestations. She chooses a very bold and intact subject matter and she creatively and innovatively deals with it in her novel. The confrontation of the two religions which are politically quite in opposition takes on a different meaning through the eyes of a quiet woman in love. Mona and Shahriar face situations where they are forced to make serious choices. The world of prejudices and conflicts is ignorant of their passion, and the political and religious contexts they were raised in put a great deal of pressure on them.
The novel raised many controversies in Iran, yet drew a lot of attention. It was well received by the critics and gave way to the narration of a part of the Jewish minority which was less approached by writers before. “Rejection” as the result of religious beliefs and roots leads to a series of events which are impartially and effectively described by Jeyran Gahan. The reader of this novel will eventually come across a new image of the small community of Iranian Jews; a community that rages against a girl in love, a community which is a victim and a victimizer.
Author Biography
Jeyran Gahan was born in 1985. She had her first novel ‘Under the carefree afternoon sun’ published in 2008 in Iran. She graduated in computer science and then went to India to major in cultural studies. She has been continuing her studies in Canada for some years now. ‘Under the carefree afternoon sun’ received a large amount of feedback. It was totally banned in the second half of Ahmadinejad’s presidency and unbanned and reprinted for the fifth time during the presidency of Hassan Rouhani. It won the Hooshang Golshiri Literary Award.
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Copyright © 2010, Nashre-Cheshmeh Publishing House, Tehran, Iran
Nashre-Cheshmeh Publishing House
Nashre-Cheshmeh is a family business with more than 100 employees. It is one of the most active private publishing houses of the country with more than 1500 books, an annual number of 130 new ones, and six bookstores. The house has been working for more than 35 years, publishing the works of the most significant Iranian writers, poets, and translators, and the young generation of the best Iranian literary figures of the country. Many of these writers have novels, short stories, or poems published, or going to be published, in the European countries, the US, and Asia. We have always supported Iran’s joining the Berne Convention, thus tried to acquire the Persian translation rights for the titles we publish, such as the books by Orhan Pamuk, Steve Toltz, Patrick Modiano, Javier Marias, Rolf Dobelli, Alain Badiou, Klaus Modick, Ben Clanton, Siri Kolu.
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- Publisher Nashre-Cheshmeh Publishing House
- Orginal LanguagePersian
- ISBN/Identifier 9789643625757
- Publication Country or regionIran
- Pages144
- Publish StatusPublished
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