Ms Shokoofeh Azar

This edition of The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree is in the Farsi language. An extraordinarily powerful and evocative literary novel set in Iran during the period immediately after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Using the lyrical magic realism style of classical Persian storytelling, Azar draws the reader deep into the heart of a family caught in the maelstrom of...

Shortlisted for the International 2020 Booker Prize Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2018 Shortlisted for The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award 2018 Shortlisted for the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Longlisted for the US National Book Award 2020 Longlisted for the PEN America Literary Awards 2021: PEN Translation Prize Shokoofeh Azar is the only Australian author to be...