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Books to Read on Iran
History books on Iran
The historian Ali Ansari, author of Iran: A Very Short Introduction (), talked to us about Iranian history. For an in-depth account, Paul Lay, editor of History Today, recommended Abbas Amanat’s + page book, Iran: A Modern History (), as one of the best history books of the year and the result of a "lifetime's learning" by a leading scholar.
For books on the Persian empire, there's Persians: The Age of The Great Kings by British historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones or you can try the historical novel he recommends, Creationby Gore Vidal.
Books on the Iranian Revolution
Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuściński
The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran by Roy Mottahedeh
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer
Novels and Memoirs of Iran
The satirical novel My Uncle Napoleon () by Iraj Pezeshkzad is recommended by both Jasmin Darznik and Pooneh Ghoddoosi as
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The best books on Iran
The first book you chose, My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad, is one of the most beloved Iranian novels of the 20th century and it has been hailed as a masterpiece of Persian literature. Could you tell me a bit more about it?
To be honest, when I first heard about it I was really young. I hadn’t read the book but I had seen the TV adaptation, which was a series like “Friends”, though in a very different kind of way. It was very political and satirical, though not obviously so. I was too young to understand the very sensitive social commentary that was hidden in the day-to-day lives of the characters, but I still loved it.
But after reading the book in my teens I discovered the depth of its explanations of the culture, mentalities, stereotypes and clichés of Iranian society. It showed the various mindsets – like the modern, the religious, and the Westernised.
You know how in any TV series or book, each character is a prototype of a personality in t