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  Bombay Duck

  Part One Scenes in London, Edinburgh and Delhi. Gerald Bloom, unacclaimed actor of Caribbean origin, assumes the name of Ali Abdul Rahman and finds fame and fortune. His greatest moment arrives when David Stream, international impresario and guru of cross-cultural hype, casts him as Lord Ram in his dream project – a stage adaptation of the Hindu epic, Ramayana. Success attends them until fate and religious (...)
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  A Parsi in Cleveland

  Thrity Umrigar In a wintry suburb of Cleveland, a recently widowed Parsi named Tehmina has come from her apartment in Bombay to visit — maybe to live with — her only son, Sorab, and his American wife, Susan. The couple has a 7-year-old child nicknamed Cookie, on whom Tehmina dotes. If this were India, it would be a given that Tehmina would live out her life with this small family, but this is America, and Susan (...)
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  Rostam and Sohrab by Hyperwerks

  First of course was Homer and the Odyssey, and that was followed by reading Virgil’s Aeniad (in Latin — not because of any great ambition but solely because I was taking Latin in high school as I had no other course options left if I wanted to collect enough credits to get into university without taking any math or science). Then there was Sir Gawain And The Green Knight, in translation, because Old English is (...)
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  چاپ دو کتاب فارسی در اسرائیل

  کشور اسرائیل در سال ۱۹۴۸ از زادروز مسیح پس از ده‌ها سال مبارزه با کشور انگلستان (که فلسطین آن زمان را در دست داشت) و عربهای نشسته در خاورمیانه، با دادن هزاران کشته به پا خاست و سازمان کشورهای هم‌پیمان، پس از نشستی سرنوشت‌ساز، برپائی این کشور را به آگاهی جهانیان رساندند. فراموش نکنیم که پیشینۀ کیش یهود در این سرزمین، بالای چهار هزار سال را در بر می گیرد، با این گوشزد که شاهان یهود و در میانشان داوود شاه و سلیمان شاه‌، بر کشور اسرائیل پیشین فرمانروائی می کردند که با (...)
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  Marjane Satrapi et sa Bridget Jones voilée

  Le régime des mollahs a protesté contre la sélection au Festival de Cannes de Persépolis, un long-métrage d’animation de “l’exilée iranienne” Marjane Satrapi, estimant qu’il porterait un regard critique sur la révolution islamique. Incroyable mais vrai : le régime des mollahs applique avec minutie les mêmes méthodes à Téhéran qu’ailleurs. Pour donner de la crédibilité à ses faux opposants et opposantes intérieurs, il fait (...)
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  My Bombay Kitchen

  The Persians of antiquity were renowned for their lavish cuisine and their never-ceasing fascination with the exotic. These traits still find expression in the cooking of India’s rapidly dwindling Parsi population — descendants of Zoroastrians who fled Persia after the Sassanian empire fell to the invading Arabs. The first book published in the United States on Parsi food written by a Parsi, this beautiful volume (...)
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  The Ahriman Gate

  Joe Ryback, a twenty-six year old marine whose Lieutenant Colonel father was murdered under mysterious circumstances, stumbles upon a cover-up that reaches to the highest levels of US government and military agencies. Suddenly too deep to turn back, he struggles to contain the nightmarish forces closing around him and his family. As a mind-boggling phantasm brings him face to face with genetically modified (...)
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  Ahriman playing in The Legacy of Ogma

  Dungeons and Dragons and Lord of the Rings fans looking past Harry Potter for their next good read are in luck. Sorcery, swords and monsters abound in Ethan Rappaport’s fantasy novel, The Legacy of Ogma. The story has a medieval setting and begins with Halia, a young woman forced into a life of thievery as a child. While deep within the forest, she stumbles upon an old castle in ruins. Inside she finds a crystal (...)
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  Saveurs assassines

  Saveurs assassines est le premier roman de Kalpana Swaminathan à être traduit en français. L’histoire débute sur un magnifique week-end gastronomique dans une luxueuse villa de la communauté parsi à Bombay. Quelques jet-setteurs en vue s’y sont réunis. Lorsque le cadavre d’un des convives est retrouvé, la très respectable miss Lalli arrive à la villa. C’est le début d’un véritable cluedo gastronomique, et Lalli ne tarde pas (...)
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  La Mort en Perse

  Image, G.AdC Si l’amour existe sous la forme d’une rencontre, celle de la narratrice avec la jeune Yalé, la mort prédomine dans ce récit de voyage intérieur, et l’emporte sur l’amour. “Ange inconsolable” selon l’expression de Roger Martin du Gard, Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908-1942) hante de son désespoir les terres désertiques qu’elle a arpentées au cours de l’année 1935. La mort rôde autour d’elle, relayée par la (...)

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