The woman who read too much : a novel / Bahiyyih Nakhjavani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nak̲h̲javání, Bahíyyih, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qurrat al-ʻAyn, 1817 or 1818-1852--Fiction.

Qurrat al-ʻAyn.

Women poets, Persian--19th century--Fiction.

Women poets, Persian.

Women--Iran--Social conditions--19th century--Fiction.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Place of Publication:

Standford, California : Redwood Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gossip was rife in the capital about the poetess of Qazvin. Some claimed she had been arrested for masterminding the murder of the grand Mullah, her uncle. Others echoed her words, and passed her poems from hand to hand. Everyone spoke of her beauty, and her dazzling intelligence. But most alarming to the Shah and the court was how the poetess could read. As her warnings and predictions became prophecies fulfilled, about the assassination of the Shah, the hanging of the Mayor, and the murder of the Grand Vazir, many wondered whether she was not only reading history but writing it as well. Was she herself guilty of the crimes she was foretelling? Set in the world of the Qajar monarchs, mayors, ministers, and mullahs, this book explores the dangerous and at the same time luminous legacy left by a remarkable person. Bahiyyih Nakhjavani offers a gripping tale that is at once a compelling history of a pioneering woman, a story of nineteenth century Iran told from the street level up, and a work that is universally relevant to our times.

Contents:

Frontmatter

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Book of the Mother

The Book of the Wife

The Book of the Sister

The Book of the Daughter

Afterword

Chronology of Corpses

Further Reading

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780804794299

0804794294

OCLC:

1198929820