The result is both entertaining and a key of uncompromising honesty, rich detail, and a dazzling range of voices that guides the reader into the center of a complex society and its concerns.
Simin Daneshvar draws from over a thousand years of Persian storytelling tradition and combines this with modern techniques of short fiction and cinema. Loss of Jalal is a moving chronicle of the final days of Jalal Al-e Ahmad, one of Iran’s great writers and the author’s husband. To Whom Can I Say Hello? tells of an old woman’s memories, her life, love, tragic outcome, and eventual hope. The Traitor’s Intrigue lets you into the life of a middle-class couple and brilliantly shows how a colonel’s allegiance passed from Shah to Khomeini. The Playhouse is a traditional Persian theater where the play and the players act on many levels both real and fantastic. In The Accident, the author portrays, in hilarious parody, a young woman who forsakes husband, children, and home just to own a car.
A nanny lets go of a little girl’s hand in Shiraz’s exotic and crowded Vakil Bazaar, and goes off to flirt with the nutseller–the child is lost. These stories not only portray, with incomparable perception, humor, and compassion, women from the various strata of Iranian society, but they also capture the essence of a rich traditional culture undergoing change.
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