{"product_id":"moon-brow-paperback","title":"Moon Brow - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eShahriar Mandanipour\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSara Khalili\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"one of Iran's most important living fiction writers\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e) comes a fantastically imaginative story of love and war narrated by two angel scribes perched on the shoulders of a shell-shocked Iranian soldier who's searching for the mysterious woman haunting his dreams.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBefore he enlisted as a soldier in the Iran-Iraq war and disappeared, Amir Yamini was a carefree playboy whose only concerns were seducing women and riling his religious family. Five years later, his mother and sister Reyhaneh find him in a mental hospital for shell-shocked soldiers, his left arm and most of his memory lost. Amir is haunted by the vision of a mysterious woman whose face he cannot see--the crescent moon on her forehead shines too brightly. He names her Moon Brow. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Back home in Tehran, the prodigal son is both hailed as a living martyr to the cause of Ayatollah Khomeini's Revolution and confined as a dangerous madman. His sense of humor, if not his sanity, intact, Amir cajoles Reyhaneh into helping him escape the garden walls to search for Moon Brow. Piecing together the puzzle of his past, Amir decides there's only one solution: he must return to the battlefield and find the remains of his severed arm--and discover its secret. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e All the while, to angels sit on our hero's shoulders and inscribe the story in enthrallingly distinctive prose. Wildly inventive and radically empathetic, steeped in Persian folklore and contemporary Middle East history, \u003ci\u003eMoon Brow\u003c\/i\u003e is the great Iranian novelist Shahriar Mandanipour's unforgettable epic of love, war, morality, faith, and family.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShahriar Mandanipour\u003c\/b\u003e is one of the most accomplished writers of contemporary Iranian literature, the author of nine volumes of fiction, one nonfiction book, and more than 100 essays in literary theory, literature and art criticism, creative writing, censorship, and social commentary. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMandanipour was born in 1957 in Shiraz, Iran, and started writing from a young age. He studied political science at Tehran University and bore witness to the 1979 revolution. After the onset of the Iran-Iraq war in 1980, he joined the military and volunteered for duty at the front, where he served as a non-career officer in the 191st Infantry for more than fourteen months. In cement trenches or holes dug in earth and stone, he wrote in the light of a paraffin lantern, between the mortar attacks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The first collection of his stories, \u003ci\u003eShadows of the Cave\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1989, and the second, \u003ci\u003eThe Eighth Day of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1992. Though he continued to write in the years that followed, due to censorship he was not published again until 1997, following the election of reformist President Mohammad Khatami, and four of his books were published one or two years apart. In 1999, he became Editor-in-Chief of the monthly literary journal \u003ci\u003eAsr-e Panjshanbeh\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThursday Evening\u003c\/i\u003e), and remained so until it was banned in 2007. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 2006, Mandanipour moved to the United States and has held fellowships at Brown University, Harvard University, Boston College, and at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. Some of his short stories and essays have been published in anthologies such as \u003ci\u003eStrange Times, My Dear: The PEN Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSohrab's Wars: Counter Discourses of Contemporary Persian Fiction: A Collection of Short Stories and a Film Script\u003c\/i\u003e; and in journals such as \u003ci\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Short works have been published in France, Germany, Denmark, and in languages such as Arabic, Turkish, and Kurdish. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Mandanipour's first novel to appear in English, \u003ci\u003eCensoring an Iranian Love Story\u003c\/i\u003e, translated by Sara Khalili and published by Knopf in 2009, was named by \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e as one of the reviewers' favorites of 2009, by the \u003ci\u003eCornell Daily Sun\u003c\/i\u003e as Best Book of the Year for 2009, and by NPR as one of the best debut novels of the year; it was awarded (Greek ed.) the Athens Prize for Literature for 2011. The novel has been translated and published in eleven other languages and in thirteen countries throughout the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSara Khalili \u003c\/b\u003eis an editor and translator of contemporary Iranian literature. Her translations include \u003ci\u003eCensoring an Iranian Love Story\u003c\/i\u003e by Shahriar Mandanipour, \u003ci\u003eThe Pomegranate Lady and Her Sons\u003c\/i\u003e by Goli Taraghi, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Fate\u003c\/i\u003e by Parinoush Saniee, and \u003ci\u003eRituals of Restlessness \u003c\/i\u003eby Yaghoub Yadali. She has also translated several volumes of poetry by Forough Farrokhzad, Simin Behbahani, Siavash Kasraii, and Fereydoon Moshiri. Her short story translations have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Virginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEPOCH\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGRANTA\u003c\/i\u003e, Words Without Borders, \u003ci\u003eThe Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e, PEN America, \u003ci\u003eWitness\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eConsequence\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 24, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770464108832,"sku":"9781632061287","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/535757be08ed4d62850658e76ba59310.webp?v=1780372221","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/moon-brow-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}