Read a book from each country discussion

F.M. Esfandiary's Identity Card is touted by some reviews as a satire, though I'm told by someone I know from Iran that this is actually not a far exaggeration from the truth of what happens there.

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani

My Father's Notebook: A Novel of Iran
by Kader Abdolah

The writer moved to the Netherlands and wrote this book in Dutch. Lovely and catching story.

This book isn't set in Iran but it is about an Iranian family that moved to America. The memoir is not only a good read about adapting but it is a funny read worth while.
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by فیروزه جزایری دوما / Firoozeh Jazayeri Dumas

Caspian Rain and Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith by Gina Nahai as well as Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

The Locust and the Bird: My Mother's Story

Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America And American in Iran I have never read a book that described so well what it feels like to be an immigrant and feel like an outsider in two worlds. The author came to California when she was a child and returned to Iran in the 90's as a journalist for Time magazine. I have been meaning to read her next memoir Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran too.

Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran by Jason Elliot

Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat (memoir)

The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer

I second Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith

I second The Blood of Flowers especially, and also The Septembers of Shiraz.

Anna wrote: "Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran by Jason Elliot"

I think Jason Elliot is excellent. Liked this book, but liked An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan even more. Sorry, wrong thread, I know.

The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree is the first book translated from Farsi to be shortlisted for the International Booker award. It is written by Iranian author Shokoofeh Azar who fled to Australia as a refugee when her book was banned in her home country. The story is an historical fiction with strong elements of magical realism and Persian mythology. It tells us about a family from whose lives are turned upside down after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Here is my review.