Bozorg Alavi (1904-97) was born into a literary family in Tehran, but spent much of his life in Germany, where he taught at Humboldt University and translated many European literary works into Persian. This is one of his novels. The text is entirely in Persian (Farsi).
Bozorg Alavi was an influential Iranian writer, novelist, and political intellectual. He was a founding member of the communist Tudeh Party of Iran in the 1940s and 鈥� following the 1953 coup against ...