طاغوت و یاقوت هر دو زن بودند

<p>This book contains 16 realistic short stories in Persian by Homa Katouzian. The subjects are all contemporary and reflect the socio-political situation of present Iranian society. Some of them may be described as satirical as well as realistic and all of them touch on various aspects of recent Iranian history.</p><p>Most of the stories have real counterparts although this varies from one story to the other; and of course none of them is a pure reportage of a real event. They generally reflect what has been going on in Iran since the onset of the movements in the 1970s - ranging from the Islamist to the Maoist and other Marxist-Leninist movements - which led to the revolution of February 1979. They thus make up a fictional history of recent and current Iran in its various aspects.</p><p>Dr Homa Katouzian (University of Oxford) is a writer poet literary critic historian and economist. His numerous publications in English include <em>Sadeq Hedayat the Life and Legend of an Iranian Writer Sa'di the Poet of Love Life and Compassion </em> and <em>The Persians: ancient mediaeval and modern Iran</em>.</p>