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August 2004In der Abgeschiedenheit des Schlafs
Erzählungen
by Fattaneh Haj Seyed Javadi, Susanne Baghestani
Fattaneh Haj Seyed Javadi, geboren 1945 in Schiraz, lebt in Isfahan. Sie studierte an den Hochschulen für Literatur und Fremdsprachen in Teheran und Isfahan und arbeitete mehrere Jahre als Lehrerin. Anfang der 1990er Jahre übersetzte sie Jeffrey Arthurs Werk Kain und Abel ins Persische. Javadi ist verheiratet und hat zwei Töchter. Nach dem auch in deutscher Übersetzung sehr erfolgreichen Roman Der Morgen der Trunkenheit (1995, Insel 2000) wurde ihr zweites Buch In der Abgeschiedenheit des Schlafs (2002) ebenfalls zu einem Bestseller im Iran.
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March 2004Der Morgen der Trunkenheit
Roman
by Fattaneh Haj Seyed Javadi, Petra Strien-Bourmer, Susanne Baghestani
Fattaneh Haj Seyed Javadi, geboren 1945 in Schiraz, lebt in Isfahan. Sie studierte an den Hochschulen für Literatur und Fremdsprachen in Teheran und Isfahan und arbeitete mehrere Jahre als Lehrerin. Anfang der 1990er Jahre übersetzte sie Jeffrey Arthurs Werk Kain und Abel ins Persische. Javadi ist verheiratet und hat zwei Töchter. Nach dem auch in deutscher Übersetzung sehr erfolgreichen Roman Der Morgen der Trunkenheit (1995, Insel 2000) wurde ihr zweites Buch In der Abgeschiedenheit des Schlafs (2002) ebenfalls zu einem Bestseller im Iran. Petra Strien, geboren in Solingen bei Düsseldorf, ist Romanistin. Sie gibt regelmäßig Seminare für spanische und lateinamerikanische Literatur und literarisches Übersetzen an verschiedenen Universitäten. Außerdem ist sie seit vielen Jahren als freie Übersetzerin spanischer und lateinamerikanischer Prosa und Lyrik tätig. Susanne Baghestani, geboren in Teheran, übersetzt Texte aus dem Persischen und dem Französischen ins Deutsche. Sie lebt heute in Frankfurt am Main.
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November 2022Überreichweiten
Perspektiven einer globalen Ideengeschichte
by Martin Mulsow
Ein Hamburger Arzt macht sich auf die Suche nach türkischen Kampfdrogen; drei Ostindienfahrer mixen in einer Apotheke auf Java ein »unerhörtes« Elixier; der Philosoph Leibniz sucht nach frühesten chinesischen Schriftzeichen; Spanier im peruanischen Potosí müssen sehen, wie in den Minen der Teufel angebetet wird; ein jesuitischer Missionar stößt in Isfahan auf einen östlichen Hermetismus; ein heterodoxer Abenteurer übergibt dem marokkanischen Botschafter ein geheimes Manuskript und ein Vaterunser-Sammler verzweifelt an den Vokabeln der afrikanischen Khoikhoi. Was zeichnet diese vormodernen Pioniere der Globalisierung des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts aus? Wie gelingt oder misslingt ihnen die Bezugnahme auf die fremden und fernen Gegenstände, mit denen sie sich beschäftigen? Wie sind die Ideen, die bei ihnen anlanden, durch Raum und Zeit gereist? In seinem neuen Buch deutet Martin Mulsow die Frühe Neuzeit als eine Zeit der Überreichweiten, als eine Epoche, in der Quellen und Nachrichten aus nah und fern sich überlagerten, ohne dass man mit dieser Verdoppelung zurechtkam oder sie manchmal auch nur bemerkte. Es war ein Zeitalter der riskanten Referenz, das Mulsow mitreißend und gelehrt vor unseren Augen entstehen lässt.
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Second World War fictionYou Will Return to Isfahan
by Mostafa Ensafi
The book with its fluent narration provides insights into a forbidden love, and this is why it has been a success in Iran. It is a story that depicts Iran both in the context of the Second World War which is one of the most important historical events, and in its most contemporary political and cultural manifestations over the past few years. You Will Return to Isfahan was hugely noticed by the critiques. It is soon to be published in Italy too. Shamim, a well-established and successful literature professor, has lost the love of his life, Audrey, many years ago, never knowing why. Now with the appearing of Elisa -a polish girl who has apparently come to Iran to seek her grandma who was forced to migrate to a camp near Isfahan during the second world war- he walks down the memory lane and relives what he knows of Audrey or at least his assumptions about her. Elisa is aware that Shamim was once her mother's lover. However, Shamim still yearns to unfold Audrey's secret as much as Elisa wishes to know about her mother's unknown side through his eyes. Despite his wife and child's insistence to leave the turbulent Iran after the 2009 Iranian presidential election, Shamim stays in the country and tries to find Audrey, or perhaps himself, with Elisa's help. In this quest, he comes to know about some aspects of himself and of people around him, which were formerly unknown. Is Audrey the same as before? Why did beautiful Audrey disappear all of a sudden? Why did she leave everything behind including her passionate love?
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FictionYou Will Return to Isfahan
by Mostafa Ensafi
If you think that Iran is merely a land of war and revolution, you’ll be surprised to be taken into its romances to realize that Iran is a land of love rather than anything else. Shamim Shamseh, a well-established and successful literature professor, has lost the love of his life, Audrey, many years ago, never knowing why. Now with the appearing of Elisa -a polish girl who has apparently come to Iran to seek her grandma who was forced to migrate to a camp near Isfahan during the second world war- he walks down the memory lane and relives what he knows of Audrey or at least his assumptions about her. Elisa is aware that Shamim was once her mother’s lover. However, Shamim still yearns to unfold Audrey’s secret as much as Elisa wishes to know about her mother’s unknown side through his eyes. Despite his wife and child’s insistence to leave turbulent Iran after the 2009 Iranian presidential election, Shamim stays in the country and tries to find Audrey, or perhaps himself, with Elisa’s help. In this quest, he comes to know about some aspects of himself and of people around him, which were formerly unknown. Is Audrey the same as before? Why did beautiful Audrey disappear all of a sudden? Why did she leave everything behind including her passionate love?
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Romance
Bloodsoacked
by Mehdi Yazdani Khoram
Bloodsoaked passes through unfamiliar spaces, taking its readers to the heart of Iran and the Middle East, where love and life and even death are influenced by war, religion, and, of course, a cursed history. By combining Christian aesthetics with Iranian political history and through references to the history of the Middle East in early 1980s, the author has created an atmosphere that could be attractive for both Western and Eastern audiences. Bloodsoaked is one of the most read novels in the past few months in Iran. The novel has rightly been regarded by Iranian critics as a "Modem Gothic". Mohsen Meftah, a graduate student at the University of Tehran, earns his life by following in his father's footstep and making up for the missed prayers and fasts on behalf of deceased Muslims. The story begins on an autumn day when Mohsen is scheduled to visit the graves of five brothers and perform their mother's vow. And so his life gets entangled with the story of the five brothers who grew up in an old neighborhood in Tehran, next to an Armenian Apostolic Church. With the onset of the Islamic Revolution, the lives of these brothers change forever in October 1981. Nasser, the eldest brother, goes to Isfahan with his beloved, Maryam, whose father was executed after the revolution. A Catholic collector has tempted her to excavate some sacred antiquities from a church in Isfahan in turn for a Vatican visa for herself and Nasser. But this excavation turns out to be completely different from what they have imagined. Massoud is a sniper in the Iran-Iraq War, who shoots from a church tower to prevent Iraqi forces from entering the city. He is a brave young man whose shocking destiny is tied up with the fate of the left women in a war-torn city. Mansour, the third brother, is a photographer who has taken photos from the executions and trials in Revolutionary Tribunals. Taking pictures of the execution of a notorious prostitute changes his life and drags him to Beirut. There he falls in love with a Maronite nun, Maria. But politics and religious fanaticism shape a different destiny for them. Mahmoud falls in love with a communist girl and follows her to Mashhad, so that they can flee to the Soviet Union together. And the fate of Tahir, their six-year-old brother, is tied to Tehran and St. Marry Church in their neighborhood. Mohsen says prayers over all these graves, but why they all have remained empty after so many years?
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Travel & holiday guidesJanuary 2014Iran
by Hilary Smith & Patricia Baker
Known as the jewel of Central Asia, Iran's cities are packed with gilded mosques and blue-mosaic shrines built in honour of the country's greatest leaders. Its people are generous and its terrain ranges from the sands of the Persian Gulf to the Alburz Mountains in the north. The expert authors give first-hand descriptions of attractions ranging from the exquisite mosques of Isfahan and the museums and palaces of Tehran to remote, spectacular mountain hikes. New maps and up-to-date information on all the basics - hotels, restaurants, businesses and shops - help you to uncover the mysteries of ancient Persepolis, to enjoy a soak and scrub in a local hamam, or to pick up a pair of giveh slippers or a Persian rug in Kirman's bazaar.
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Children's & YAThe Ogre Conserve
by Mehdi Rajabi
Mehdi Rajabi has been a well-known author for a decade now. He always says his main passion is to write novels for younger adults. He has won a number of literary prizes so far, such as: Yalda Literary Prize, Isfahan Literary Prize and winner of Best Book for Children and Young Adults. The Ogre Conserve has a twist in it: a good boy who wants to be bad. Tooka is a clever boy, with whole lot of problems at home and at school. His father passed away and his mother is so depressed she doesn’t care about Tooka. In School, there are always some bully boys who want to hurt him. Hi is alone, has no friends, and gets bitten all the time. Someday, he buys a book from an old lady: the biography of a criminal. Some parts of this memoir is dextrously woven in the context of the book. Tooka decides to be a criminal because his current life is very disappointing to him. The old lady sold an Ogre Conserve to Tooka as well. The Ogre is big, bitter, speaks nonsense, like the colour yellow and doesn’t obey Tooka. When Tooka’s finger is broken in a fight at school, he has to stay home and then he’ll get to know the magic of numbers. His mathematics brilliance is flourished and he becomes a well-known math scientist. He no longer wishes to be a criminal, for now he is famous and loved.
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History of Art / Art & Design StylesAugust 2014Mediating Netherlandish Art and Material Culture in Asia
by Edited by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann and Michael North
Scholars have extensively documented the historical and socioeconomic impact of the Dutch East India Company. They have paid much less attention to the company’s significant influence on Asian art and visual culture. Mediating Netherlandish Art and Material Culture in Asia addresses this imbalance with a wide range of contributions covering such topics as Dutch and Chinese art in colonial and indigenous households; the rise of Hollandmania in Japan; and the Dutch painters who worked at the court of the Persian shahs. Together, the contributors shed new light on seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture“and the company that spread it across Asia.
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FictionOctober 2020Stories of the Walled City
by Ali Ayçil Translated by Dr Mohsin Ali & Edited by Sanjiv Sarin
Stories of the Walled City uncover the subtleties of life through love, faith and human relationships. They take the reader to a distant land – a faraway world where every character breathes the life of an ordinary person. The human flaws in them are surprisingly familiar in any setting. The charm of the stories does not lie only in the pretended moral acts of the characters but also in the delusional life of perfection. They give a glimpse of the desired balance between both the worlds that pierce through the questions of spirituality in selfish or selfless acts.
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FictionTHE MOST BEAUTIFUL STRANGER LIGHT
by VLADIMIR P. ŠTEFANEC
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL STRANGER LIGHT (Najlepša neznanka svetloba) The novel’s starting point is six portraits on the desk of the main character. These photographs show the people closest to him, with whom his life to date, its determinants, longings, regrets, captivity, the possibility of liberation, has been connected. Through fragments of memory, their stories are woven into a common story about their past, torn between the seemingly carefree life in the late nineteenth century until the 1920s, when the looming shadows of world events reached Slovenia. In this novel about liberation achieved through the clearing of an individual’s past and his family’s, about everyday melancholy and the melancholy of everyday life, which nevertheless includes some of what makes life exciting and precious, the main character keeps wondering what distance to choose for the best photographic result, as well as how close to let someone come without letting them penetrate his isolation.
