Fiction
You Will Return to Isfahan
by Mostafa Ensafi
Description
If you think that Iran is merely a land of war and revolution, you’ll be surprised to be taken into its romances to realize that Iran is a land of love rather than anything else.
Shamim Shamseh, a well-established and successful literature professor, has lost the love of his life, Audrey, many years ago, never knowing why. Now with the appearing of Elisa -a polish girl who has apparently come to Iran to seek her grandma who was forced to migrate to a camp near Isfahan during the second world war- he walks down the memory lane and relives what he knows of Audrey or at least his assumptions about her. Elisa is aware that Shamim was once her mother’s lover. However, Shamim still yearns to unfold Audrey’s secret as much as Elisa wishes to know about her mother’s unknown side through his eyes. Despite his wife and child’s insistence to leave turbulent Iran after the 2009 Iranian presidential election, Shamim stays in the country and tries to find Audrey, or perhaps himself, with Elisa’s help. In this quest, he comes to know about some aspects of himself and of people around him, which were formerly unknown. Is Audrey the same as before? Why did beautiful Audrey disappear all of a sudden? Why did she leave everything behind including her passionate love?
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Reviews
YOU WILL RETURN TO ISFAHAN makes an effort to create a bond between two cultures by making references to one of the most intriguing historical events of Iran in the forties; a bond which is based on love and uncovering an old secret. At the beginning of the Second World War, about one hundred and fifteen thousand Polish women were forced to migrate to Iran through northern borders and were settled in cities such as Tehran and Isfahan to return to Poland after the war. However, when the war was over many of these women stayed in Iran and became distinguished due to differences in appearance, religion, and culture. Referring to this historical event and the situation of today’s Iran, the young writer of YOU WILL RETURN TO ISFAHAN sets the stage for discovering forgotten pieces of objects and people buried under the dust of time.
The novel is filled with mysteries and surprises, and as it proceeds, the gap between reality and memory is highlighted; a gap which shakes the beliefs of its characters. The book with its fluent narration provides insights into a forbidden love, and this is why it has been a success in Iran. It is a historical romance which takes the reader to the dusted labyrinths of history; a story that depicts Iran both in the context of the Second World War which is one of the most important historical events, and in the most contemporary manifestations of its politics and culture over the past few years.
Author Biography
Mostafa Ensafi -born in 1987- is a young Iranian author whose first novel has drawn a lot of attention. He’s a civil engineer and has been writing reviews on novels and other forms of literature for years. He’s also the editor of a literary website. His first novel YOU WILL RETURN TO ISFAHAN published in 2016 has been reprinted three times so far. Ensafi was hugely noticed by the critiques after the publishing of this novel.
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Copyright © 2017, Nashre-Cheshmeh Publishing House, Tehran, Iran
Nashre-Cheshmeh Publishing House
Nashre-Cheshmeh is a family business with more than 100 employees. It is one of the most active private publishing houses of the country with more than 1500 books, an annual number of 130 new ones, and six bookstores. The house has been working for more than 35 years, publishing the works of the most significant Iranian writers, poets, and translators, and the young generation of the best Iranian literary figures of the country. Many of these writers have novels, short stories, or poems published, or going to be published, in the European countries, the US, and Asia. We have always supported Iran’s joining the Berne Convention, thus tried to acquire the Persian translation rights for the titles we publish, such as the books by Orhan Pamuk, Steve Toltz, Patrick Modiano, Javier Marias, Rolf Dobelli, Alain Badiou, Klaus Modick, Ben Clanton, Siri Kolu.
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- Publisher Nashre-Cheshmeh Publishing House
- Orginal LanguagePersian
- ISBN/Identifier 9786007405260
- Publication Country or regionIran
- FormatPaperback
- Pages276
- Publish StatusPublished
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