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Stories from Persia: An Anthology of Persian Short Fiction: An Insight into Iranian, Persian and Middle Eastern History and Literature (Repency Classic Kindle Books for Adults) Kindle Edition

by Mehdi Hamidi Shirazi (Author), Helena Celbs (Author), Sadegh Hedayat (Author), Format: Kindle Edition

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Book 2 of 2: Stories from Persia

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Including stories by the renowned Persian authors, Sadegh Hedayat and Shin Partow

The translator Helena Celbs is the author of the historical fiction series The Legend of Atiris, played in Ancient Persia.

The Price of Love
Hirta, son of Soorna, lived in a huge and magnificent palace in his father’s land, located beside Lake Zarimand. He was Soorna’s only son, and had been the most prominent general of Ard, the Ashkanid king who defeated the Romans so heavily in Mesopotamia. It was in that war that Crassus, the Roman army chief, was murdered.
After the Sassanids came to power, the Ashkanids had no longer that power and splendor of the past. Iran’s top generals joined the army of Ardashir Babak, while the remnants of the Ashkanids, the ones who were not disobedient, continued to live in their bequeathed lands. Hirta, son of Soorna, was living in his large castle in the countryside. It had been several years since his first wife had died, and because he had no child from her he had married a twenty-one-year-old girl whom he had accidentally met in a village. He met Manda on his way back from hunting. She was carrying home a big jar of water from a spring. He asked for some water, and asked her name, and the same night he asked her father for her hand in marriage. He brought Manda to the palace the next day. Manda was a beautiful girl, tall and slim. With her dark eyes, long hair, delicate skin, beautiful voice, wonderful body and high hopes, she entered Hirta’s huge palace...

Persia (today Iran) is an age-old territory with an ancient culture. Ferdowsi (940–1020AD), the Persian poet who narrates the history of Iran in his masterwork Shahnameh begins with the story of Keumars, who he proclaims to be the first man. According to Shahnameh, Keumars’s grandson Hushang discovered fire and founded the Persian festival of Sadeh in its honor. Indeed, Ferdowsi relates the history of mankind in a manner unbeknown to the western public.
After poets such as Ferdowsi, Saadi and Khayyam, Persian literature never stopped to thrive and has known no stagnation ever since. It has continued to evolve through centuries of prosper and refinement.
Stories from Persia is written by several prominent contemporary Iranian authors, including Sadegh Hedayat (known best in the West for his famous novel The Blind Owl) and Sadegh Chubak. The original title of the book in Persian is The Sea of Gems (1959) edited by Dr. Mehdi Hamidi Shirazi (1914-1986).
The 24 stories are diverse and entertaining. They cover a variety of different genres such as women's fiction, historical fiction, animal fables, magical realism, and romance. They illuminate many murky corners of the Iranian culture.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0975X94HR
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Repency (July 17, 2021)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 17, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 556 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 324 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #1,290,824 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #223 in Historical Middle Eastern Fiction
- #447 in Middle Eastern Literature (Books)
- #512 in Historical Fiction Short Stories (Kindle Store)

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Helena Celbs is the author of the historical fiction Persian Beauty which has been downloaded thousands of times worldwide. Please note the fourth book in the series is the complete novella.
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