by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani · Rizzoli · tapa dura · ISBN 9788817017701
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«La donna che leggeva troppo» is the historical novel by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani, published by Rizzoli in hardback (426 pages, in Italian).
Set in nineteenth-century Persia, the novel follows Tahirih Qurratu'l-Ayn, a woman raised with the freedom to study, who stands out as a poet and defender of female dignity. Accused of murder, she flees the shah's police and baffles her pursuers by removing her veil in public. The work blends historical reality and legend.
Published in 2007, the work is part of Rizzoli's Scala stranieri collection and is written in Italian.
A work for readers of historical fiction interested in nineteenth-century Iran and in female figures who defied their era.
Bahiyyih Nakhjavani is an Iranian writer who grew up in Uganda in the 1960s. She was educated at Dr Williams School, Dolgellau, United Kingdom and the United States. She taught European and American literature in Belgium, and later moved to France, where she teaches.
