About the author: Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami teaches Persian language and literature at New York University. He is co-editor and co-translator, most recently, of A Feast in the Mirror: Stories by Contemporary Iranian Women (with Shouleh Vatanabadi).
2002 0-7734-6935-4 This book describes and analyzes contemporary Iranian fiction through the technical components of Persian literary tradition. Texts examined include: Tuba va Ma’na-ye Shab; Ghazaleh Alizadeh’s “Dadresi”; Ayenehha-Ye Dardar; and the short stories of Shahriyar Mandanipur.