Pages

Friday, 9 March 2018

Stella Prize for Female Australian Authors

The shortlist for the 2018 Stella Prize have been announced. One of the shortlisted authors is Shookoofeh Azar, a refugee from Iran now living in Australia.

Read her amazing story here https://goo.gl/GwLbRe or from our database here 

This book is an extraordinarily powerful and evocative literary novel set in Iran in the period immediately after the Islamic Revolution in  1079. 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 post-revolutionary chaos and brutality that sweeps across an ancient land and its people. Azar is the consummate storyteller, using the panoply of Persian mythical and mystical entities to bring life, humour, hope, resignation , and profound insights to the characters and their world.

This is a senior fiction book that is on order for the school library.







No comments:

Post a Comment