by Parinoush Saniee · Salamandra Bolsillo · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788498387896
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«El libro de mi destino» is the contemporary novel by Parinoush Saniee, published by Salamandra Bolsillo in paperback (448 pages, in Spanish).
Masumeh, a young woman from a traditional Tehran family, lives through the years before the 1979 revolution and the following three decades from her adolescence. A forbidden youthful love leads her to an arranged marriage with Hamid, who is devoted to politics, while Iran transforms and she tries to reconcile family duty with her own happiness.
Winner of the 2010 Bocaccio Prize for best foreign novel in Italy. Part of the Salamandra Bolsillo collection.
A read for those seeking female and historical narrative set in Iran, with a protagonist who spans decades of social and political change.
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.
