VIS & I

by Farideh Razi, Niloufar Talebi (Translation)

Vis & I is an interior monologue during a harrowing cab ride through the streets of Tehran as Pardis rushes to the airport to stop her lover from leaving. Multiple narrative threads and flashbacks, real and imaginary voices--primarily that of Vis , the heroine of the Persian epic romance, Vis & Ramin --interweave in this gritty, postmodern love story. Vis & I poses the ultimate to exercise the strength of will that Vis has come to represent in the Iranian literary canon and psyche in the vindication of a forbidden love and being true to oneself.

114 pages, Paperback

Published March 15, 2017

Reviews

[World Literature Today]

"As the scenes begin to pile up, Razi’s style of writing makes the present and the past move between the realms of reality, memories, and hallucinations, allowing her to characterize a restless soul in pain who tries to meet loss in the eye, not just the loss of the lover but also that of the self and the others gripped in the chaos around her." - Poupeh Missaghi

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