An Island in the Heart of the Greater Tehran

by Maryam Raeesdana, Mehran Taghvaipour (Translator)

Rigna is the most beautiful, the most favourable, and the most expensive daughter. The writer once accidentally saw her in Berlin Alley, not in Tehranpars. She was burning wild rue on charcoal. She had stretched and shiny skin with big, pink cheeks and lips (of course, the narrator is not certain if the girl she saw was exactly our Rigna. But, what is the difference? What is the significance? Rigna can be an example of thousands of homeless Rignas in the city).

12 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 6, 2013