by Parinoush Saniee · SALAMANDRA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498385953
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«El libro de mi destino» is the contemporary novel by Parinoush Saniee, published by Salamandra in paperback (448 pages, in Spanish).
Masumeh, a young woman from a traditional family in Tehran, grows up amid the changes brought by the 1979 revolution. An impossible youthful love pushes her into an arranged marriage with Hamid, an absent activist, and years of sacrifice as a mother. In the end, a twist forces her to choose between her happiness and the honor imposed by tradition.
The novel was banned in Iran and published clandestinely, and in 2010 it won the Bocaccio Prize for best foreign novel in Italy.
For readers of contemporary fiction who want to approach Iranian society through a story starring a woman.
Parinoush Saniee is an Iranian novelist. Her novel The Book of Fate has been translated into 26 languages and the English translation by Sara Khalili was listed by World Literature Today as one of the "75 notable translations of 2013". The Italian edition earned Saniee the 2010 Boccaccio Prize.
