sahar's bookshelf: all en-US Sun, 26 May 2024 02:37:01 -0700 60 sahar's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Symphonie der Toten 58517 355 Abbas Maroufi 3518393847 sahar 0 3.93 1989 Symphonie der Toten
author: Abbas Maroufi
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average rating: 3.93
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خاطرات روسپیان سودازده‌� من 1973370
کتاب خاطرات روسپیان سودازده من نوشته گابریل گارسیا مارکز نویسنده پر اوازه کلمبیایی که در ایرا ن به ان اجازه انتشار ندادند به فارسی ترجمه و منتشر شد.این کتاب که به علت بیماری و کهولت مارکز شاید اخرین کتاب او باشد در اکتبر 2004 به بازار امد و چاپ اول ان در یک میلیون نسخه منتشر شد. روسپیان سودازده من مو جب سر و صدای زیادی در مطبوعات و محافل هنری شده و کتابی است کوچک که در ان به رابطه عشق پیرانه سر مردی سالخورده و دخترکی نو جوان اشاره دارد و نگاهی است متفاوت به مفهوم پیری، عشق و زندگی

این کتاب توسط امیر حسین فطانت مستقیما از زبان اصلی ، اسپانیایی ، به فارسی و توسط نشر ایران در امریکا منتشر شده است

فرازي از کتاب که در پشت جلد آمده است دريچه ايست به رمان آخر مارکز: “د� سالگرد نود سالگي ام خواستم شب عشقي ديوانه وار را با نوجواني باکره بخود هديه دهم. به ياد رزا کارباکس افتادم؛ ملک يک خانه مخفي که عادت داشت هر وقت خبر تازه اي به دستش مي رسيد آنرا به مشتريان خويش اطلاع دهد. هيچ وقت به او و به هيچکدام از پيشنهادهاي وسوسه انگيز بي شرمانه اش تن نداده بودم. اما او اصولي را که من به آنها اعتقاد داشتم قبول نداشت و با لبخندي موذيانه مي گفت: اخلاقيات هم بستگي به زمان داره، خواهي ديد]]>
125 Gabriel García Márquez sahar 0 3.27 2004 خاطرات روسپیان سودازده‌ی من
author: Gabriel García Márquez
name: sahar
average rating: 3.27
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hame ba in dastan hal kardan hatta bishtar az sad sal tanhayi ama man kheili doost nadashtam moshabehesho dar khaneye ziba rooyane khofte khoonde boodam
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<![CDATA[(سه گانه روز اول عشق (آدم و هوا]]> 3730183
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محمد محمدعلی sahar 0 3.90 2002 (سه گانه روز اول عشق (آدم و هوا
author: محمد محمدعلی
name: sahar
average rating: 3.90
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hichi nadaram begam darmoredesh
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<![CDATA[If on a Winter's Night a Traveler]]> 60108 If on a Winter's Night is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of same book - If on a Winter's Night by Italo Calvino - are constantly and comically frustrated. The Arabian Nights of our day.]]> 254 Italo Calvino 1857151380 sahar 0 4.08 1979 If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
author: Italo Calvino
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average rating: 4.08
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<![CDATA[The Bread of Those Early Years]]> 78540
Torn by insecurity and cynicism, Fendrich is obsessed with hunger, "with the wolf living inside my stomach." The water and wartime shortages haunt him at an insatiable craving for bread, a bottomless desperation for security and gratification of basic needs.. One day he finds himself and his world transformed when he meets the daughter of a high school principal. Love, he discovers suddenly, dispels his cravings as bread never could.]]>
134 Heinrich Böll 0810111632 sahar 0 3.58 1955 The Bread of Those Early Years
author: Heinrich Böll
name: sahar
average rating: 3.58
book published: 1955
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<![CDATA[Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy]]> 25406 Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print.

One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning--but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.]]>
518 Jostein Gaarder 0374530718 sahar 0 3.75 1991 Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
author: Jostein Gaarder
name: sahar
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1991
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Adieu Gary Cooper 58186 256 Romain Gary 2070384527 sahar 0 3.99 1964 Adieu Gary Cooper
author: Romain Gary
name: sahar
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1964
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سمفونی مردگان 300905 352 Abbas Maroufi 9643113442 sahar 5 4.25 1989 سمفونی مردگان
author: Abbas Maroufi
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average rating: 4.25
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بار دیگر شهری که دوست میداشتم 3284222 و تو - ساکن در این شهری
و سوگند به پدر، و فرزندانی که پدید آورد
که انسان را در رنج آفریده ییم]]>
100 Nader Ebrahimi sahar 0 3.89 1966 بار دیگر شهری که دوست میداشتم
author: Nader Ebrahimi
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average rating: 3.89
book published: 1966
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khoda biyamorzatesh ino ke khoondam ajib delamkhast ashegh sham
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<![CDATA[دکتر نون زنش را بیشتر از مصدق دوست دارد]]> 1671821 111 شهرام رحیمیان 9644481208 sahar 0 3.69 دکتر نون زنش را بیشتر از مصدق دوست دارد
author: شهرام رحیمیان
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average rating: 3.69
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be har hal tahte tasire golshiriye ama khalaghiyat nevisande kamelan maloome ye taghlide serf nist
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Le Petit Prince 70720 S'ouvre alors un monde étrange et poétique, peuplé de métaphores, décrit à travers les paroles d'un "petit prince" qui porte aussi sur notre monde à nous un regard tout neuf, empli de naïveté, de fraîcheur et de gravité. Très vite, vous découvrez d'étranges planètes, peuplées d'hommes d'affaires, de buveurs, de vaniteux, d'allumeurs de réverbères.

Cette évocation onirique, à laquelle participent les aquarelles de l'auteur, a tout d'un parcours initiatique, où l'enfant apprendra les richesses essentielles des rapports humains et le secret qui les régit : "On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."

Oeuvre essentielle de la littérature, ce livre de Saint-Exupéry est un ouvrage que l'on aura à coeur de raconter à son enfant, page après page, histoire aussi de redécouvrir l'enfant que l'on était autrefois, avant de devenir une grande personne !]]>
123 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 3125971403 sahar 0 4.38 1943 Le Petit Prince
author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
name: sahar
average rating: 4.38
book published: 1943
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there are profits in the world.when ever and where ever
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مدایح بی‌صل� 88268 احمد شاملو sahar 0 4.19 1992 مدایح بی‌صله
author: احمد شاملو
name: sahar
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1992
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che beguyam ke nagoftanam behtar ast
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<![CDATA[Journey to the End of the Night]]> 12395 Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of violence, cruelty and obscene nihilism. This book shocked most critics when it was first published in France in 1932, but quickly became a success with the reading public in Europe, and later in America where it was first published by New Directions in 1952. The story of the improbable yet convincingly described travels of the petit-bourgeois (and largely autobiographical) antihero, Bardamu, from the trenches of World War I, to the African jungle, to New York and Detroit, and finally to life as a failed doctor in Paris, takes the readers by the scruff and hurtles them toward the novel's inevitable, sad conclusion.]]> 453 Louis-Ferdinand Céline 0811216543 sahar 0 4.23 1932 Journey to the End of the Night
author: Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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average rating: 4.23
book published: 1932
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The Metamorphosis 485894 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes."

With it's startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."]]>
201 Franz Kafka 0553213695 sahar 0 3.90 1915 The Metamorphosis
author: Franz Kafka
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average rating: 3.90
book published: 1915
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The Baron in the Trees 9804
Cosimo di Rondó, a young Italian nobleman of the eighteenth century, rebels against his parents by climbing into the trees and remaining there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an existence in the forest canopy—he hunts, sows crops, plays games with earth-bound friends, fights forest fires, solves engineering problems, and even manages to have love affairs. From his perch in the trees, Cosimo sees the Age of Enlightenment pass by, and a new century dawn.

The Baron in the Trees exemplifies Calvino’s peerless ability to weave tales that sparkle with enchantment. This new English rendering by acclaimed translator Ann Goldstein breathes new life into one of Calvino’s most beloved works.]]>
217 Italo Calvino sahar 0 4.12 1957 The Baron in the Trees
author: Italo Calvino
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average rating: 4.12
book published: 1957
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Billy Bathgate 112508 374 E.L. Doctorow 2879294045 sahar 0 3.76 1989 Billy Bathgate
author: E.L. Doctorow
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average rating: 3.76
book published: 1989
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One Hundred Years of Solitude 5215 464 Gabriel García Márquez 0060740450 sahar 0 3.92 1967 One Hundred Years of Solitude
author: Gabriel García Márquez
name: sahar
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1967
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<![CDATA[A Lover's Discourse: Fragments]]> 23059 A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented use of the tools of structuralism to explore the whimsical phenomenon of love. Rich with references ranging from Goethe's Werther to Winnicott, from Plato to Proust, from Baudelaire to Schubert, A Lover's Discourse artfully draws a portrait in which every reader will find echoes of themselves.]]> 234 Roland Barthes 0809013886 sahar 0 4.13 1977 A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
author: Roland Barthes
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average rating: 4.13
book published: 1977
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Blindness 2526 No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order.

Discover a
chillingly powerful and prescient dystopian vision from one of Europe's greatest writers.

A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is affected before he can read the textbooks.
It becomes a contagion, spreading throughout the city. Trying to stem the epidemic, the authorities herd the afflicted into a mental asylum where the wards are terrorised by blind thugs. And when fire destroys the asylum, the inmates burst forth and the last links with a supposedly civilised society are snapped.

This is not anarchy, this is blindness.

‘Saramago repeatedly undertakes to unite the pressing demands of the present with an unfolding vision of the future. This is his most apocalyptic, and most optimistic, version of that project yet� Independent
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326 José Saramago sahar 0 4.04 1995 Blindness
author: José Saramago
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average rating: 4.04
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Letter to a Child Never Born 70689 116 Oriana Fallaci 0385134851 sahar 0 3.91 1975 Letter to a Child Never Born
author: Oriana Fallaci
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average rating: 3.91
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The Stranger 89343 Albert Camus 1406711284 sahar 0 3.89 1942 The Stranger
author: Albert Camus
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average rating: 3.89
book published: 1942
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The Plague 11989
It tells the story from the point of view of a narrator of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. The narrator remains unknown until the start of the last chapter, chapter 5 of part 5. The novel presents a snapshot of life in Oran as seen through the author's distinctive absurdist point of view.

The book tells a gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope, and a parable of ageless moral resonance, profoundly relevant to our times. In Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, the plague begins as a series of portents, unheeded by the people. It gradually becomes an omnipresent reality, obliterating all traces of the past and driving its victims to almost unearthly extremes of suffering, madness, and compassion.

The Plague is considered an existentialist classic despite Camus' objection to the label. The novel stresses the powerlessness of the individual characters to affect their destinies. The narrative tone is similar to Kafka's, especially in The Trial, whose individual sentences potentially have multiple meanings; the material often pointedly resonating as stark allegory of phenomenal consciousness and the human condition.]]>
308 Albert Camus sahar 0 4.05 1947 The Plague
author: Albert Camus
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average rating: 4.05
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<![CDATA[Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None]]> 18310 356 Friedrich Nietzsche 1406947199 sahar 0 4.04 1883 Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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average rating: 4.04
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Aura 56899 118 Carlos Fuentes 9580469717 sahar 0 3.87 1962 Aura
author: Carlos Fuentes
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average rating: 3.87
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The Divan 46292
This compact version of the Divan of Hafez is a facsimile illuminated manuscript, complete with beautiful Persian calligraphy and miniature illustrations. There are 43 ghazals, translated into English by classical scholar Gertrude Bell. It is a truly beautiful introduction not only to the works of this beloved Sufi mystic, but also to the artistry of Mahmoud Farshchian. It is like getting two books in one: poetry and art.

"Hafiz has no peer." � Goethe
Poetry is the greatest literary form of ancient Persia and modern Iran, and the fourteenth-century poet known as Hafiz is its preeminent master. Little is known about the poet's life, and there are more legends than facts relating to the particulars of his existence. This mythic quality is entirely appropriate for the man known as "The Interpreter of Mysteries" and "The Tongue of the Hidden," whose verse is regarded as oracular by those seeking guidance and attempting to realize wishes.
A mere fraction of what is presumed to have been an extensive body of work survives. This collection is derived from Hafiz's Divan (collected poems), a classic of Sufism. The short poems, called ghazals, are sonnet-like arrangements of varied numbers of couplets. In the tradition of Persian poetry and Sufi philosophy, each poem corresponds to two interpretations, sensual and mystic.
This outstanding translation of Hafiz's poetry was created by historian and Arabic scholar Gertrude Bell, who observed, "These are the utterances of a great poet, the imaginative interpreter of the heart of man; they are not of one age, or of another, but for all time."]]>
566 Hafez 9646534783 sahar 0 4.68 1390 The Divan
author: Hafez
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average rating: 4.68
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Pedro Páramo 38670 132 Juan Rulfo 351801434X sahar 0 4.01 1955 Pedro Páramo
author: Juan Rulfo
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average rating: 4.01
book published: 1955
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A Light in the Attic 30118 Last night while I lay thinking here
Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear
And pranced and partied all night long
And sang their same old Whatif song:

Whatif I flunk that test?
Whatif green hair grows on my chest?
Whatif nobody likes me?
Whatif a bolt of lightning strikes me?...This 20th anniversary of Shel Silverstein's A Light in the Attic includes a CD of highlights from his Grammy Award-winning album.

Here in the attic of Shel Silverstein you will find Backward Bill, Sour Face Ann, the Meehoo with an Exactlywatt, and the Polar Bear in the Frigidaire. You will talk with Broiled Face, and find out what happens when Somebody steals your knees, you get caught by the Quick-Digesting Gink, a Mountain snores, and They Put a Brassiere on the Camel.

From the creator of the beloved poetry collections Where the Sidewalk Ends and Falling Up, here is another wondrous book of poems and drawings.]]>
176 Shel Silverstein 0060513063 sahar 0 4.36 1981 A Light in the Attic
author: Shel Silverstein
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average rating: 4.36
book published: 1981
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 51496 139 Robert Louis Stevenson 0451528956 sahar 0 3.84 1886 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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average rating: 3.84
book published: 1886
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The Solitaire Mystery 25404 320 Jostein Gaarder 0374529434 sahar 0 3.68 1990 The Solitaire Mystery
author: Jostein Gaarder
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average rating: 3.68
book published: 1990
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Night Flight 8842 216 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1417996501 sahar 0 3.90 1931 Night Flight
author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
name: sahar
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1931
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