Parastoo: Stories and Poems

By Mihrī Yalfānī and Mehri Yalfani

Parastoo is a haunting collection of stories and poems tracing emotional contour lines between post-revolutionary Iran and the U.S., Canada and Europe, between fundamentalist theocracy in a beloved country and isolation in a foreign consumer society. Illuminated by keen understanding of human tragedy and resilience, Parastoo echoes with the sorrow of exile yet offers the tender promise of rejuvenation. "Those were the days when horror and fear wandered everywhere like living creatures, yet I was happy. Perhaps simply because my children were at home, my husband was at work, and no danger threatened us." - from Someone Behind the Door "That's the day the house will be ours, and you will plant vegetables and flowers in the garden. And I'll finish school, get a good job. Ramin will start university, and you'll write poetry again." - from Deliriously Happy

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889612110
• ISBN13: 9780889612112
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Womens Pr
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.5" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Emotionlly Rich

An amazing stylist. This is really a book to reread, over a lifetime. Its riches are bottomless. Start, at least, with the first six stories. it's highly admirable. A lovely lyrical modern middle Eastern dystopian philosophical romance with life. A collcetion of absolutely harrowing and deep philosophical short stories. Mehri Yalfani is a fine writer; one of the best I have read.

Best book I ever read

Parastoo is the most beautiful book I ever read, reading this book I find myself crying sometimes, and laughing at others. It seems to me that it does not matter if the characters are from another land that I know not much about, I am learning as I read and I find myself in almost every page and in every story. A friend of mine found this book and reccomneded it to me and I never regret the hours I spent reading and rereading this wonderful journey of human soul.