The Crazy Dervish and the Pomegranate Tree

by Moshiri, Farnoosh

• ISBN13: 9780930773700
• ISBN10: 0930773705
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: Black Heron Press

Summary

Awarded the Black Heron Press Prize for Social Fiction. In the dozen stories in The Crazy Dervish and the Pomegranate Tree, Farnoosh Moshiri combines social and political insight with the mythology of her native Iran. Her earlier books, The Bathhouse (which also won the Black Heron Press Prize for Social Fiction) and At the Wall of the Almighty, were set in Iran. The present book is set both in Iran and the United States. Several of the stories are concerned with the loss of status, the poverty, the loss of identity that immigrants often suffer. Unlike most immigrant stories, The Crazy Dervish and the Pomegranate Tree deals equally with the violence and political repression visited upon those who would emigrate during the fundamentalist revolution in Iran.

Author Biography

Farnoosh Moshiri was born into a literary family in Teheran where she grew up. She received her Master's degree in drama from the University of Iowa, then in 1979 returned to Iran. In March 1983 she was one of a group of playwrights and actors who were ordered to sign an agreement to obey the dictates of the new regime. They refused, and Moshiri went underground, eventually escaping to Afghanistan and then India. She has lived in Houston since 1987 and is a graduate of the University of Houston's creative writing program. There she won the Barthelme Memorial Fellowship

Table of Contents

The Wall	p. 13
The Bricklayer	p. 26
Crossing	p. 54
The Pillar	p. 60
Ali The Little	p. 64
On the Rooftop	p. 78
The Pool	p. 96
The Dark End of the Orchard	p. 101
The Story of Our Life	p. 115
The Unbelievable Story of My Grandfather's Wife	p. 124
The Danger of Galapagos	p. 139
The Crazy Dervish and the Pomegranate Tree	p. 149
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