Shokoofeh Azar
Shokoofeh Azar is an author of essays, articles, children’s books, and novels as well as the first Iranian woman to hitchhike the entire length of the Silk Road. Her first novel, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree, was shortlisted for Australia’s Stella Prize for Fiction and is her first novel to be translated into English. She moved to Australia as a political refugee in 2011.
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The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
- By: Shokoofeh Azar
- Narrator: Priya Ayyar
- Length: 8 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: January 14, 2020
- Language: English
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Set in Iran in the decade following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, this moving, richly imagined novel is narrated by the ghost of Bahar, a thirteen-year-old girl, whose family is compelled to flee their home in Tehran for a new life in a small... Read more
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