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Asian Heritage in Canada
Authors
Yalfani, Mehri
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Mehri Yalfani was born in Hamadan,
Iran. She moved to Tehran to study electrical engineering
at the Technical Faculty of Tehran and unpon graduation worked
as an engineer for two decades while raising her children.
Yalfani emigrated to France in 1985 and to Canada in 1987.
She has published a number of works in Farsi (Persian), and
two collections of short stories and the novel Afsaneh's
Moon in English. Yalfani lives in Toronto. |
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Fiction
Afsaneh's Moon
Toronto: McGilligan Books, 2002..
Publisher's Synopsis
Afsaneh's Moon shines hauntingly
on the lives of four young Iranians entwined in a love story
against the barriers of fundamentalist Islam. From pond genies
of a Persian childhood to mysteries beneath the still waters
of an Ontario lake, Afsaneh, Ramin, Bahram and Negar unravel
with shocking twists in a timely, gripping novel of Islamic
revolution and its consequences. |
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Fiction (Short
stories)
Parastoo: Stories and Poems
Toronto: Women's Press, 1995. |
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Fiction (Short
stories)
Two Sisters: Stories
Toronto: TSAR, 2000.
9th floor PS8597
.A54 T86 2000
Publisher's Synopsis
These remarkable stories look at the dark side of women's
relationships-- as mothers, sisters, and wives-- in post-revolutionary
Iran, and later as immigrants and exiles, employed and unemployable,
in Canada. |
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