Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : City Lights Publishers : Made available through hoopla, 2014
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780872866621 (electronic bk.) MWT11860492, 0872866629 (electronic bk.) 11860492
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
A woman's struggle for self-realization in contemporary Iran. When Minou Hakini marries a man of her own choosing-an intellectual and a radical-and moves to Abadan, a thriving oil town near the Iraqi border, she imagines her life will be adventurous and liberating. Before long, however, she becomes aware of her husband's suspicious liaisons and dangerous activities. Her struggle to forge her own identity as a woman in contemporary Iran is charged with passion, anger, and finally a need to escape
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