Isfahan Is Half the World ：Memories of a Persian Boyhood ( Princeton Legacy Library )

Publication subTitle ：Memories of a Persian Boyhood

Publication series ：Princeton Legacy Library

Author： Jamalzadeh Sayyed Mohammed Ali;Heston W.;;  

Publisher： Princeton University Press‎

Publication year： 2014

E-ISBN: 9781400855520

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691065632

Subject： K History and Geography

Keyword： 历史、地理

Language： ENG

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Description

Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh, acclaimed as the father of modern Persian short story, wrote this work. Sar o Tah-e Yak Karbas. to provide his fellow Iranians a memoir in story form of traditional Islamic life in Iran before westernization.

Originally published in 1983.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Chapter

Cover

Contents

Introduction

Volume One: Reminiscings and Beginning

Preface

Part I: Memories of Childhood Times

Part II: Wanderings of Youth

1. The Flip of a Coin

2. The Greedy Eyes of the Wealthy

3. The Magi's Abbey and Their Pir

4. Heartache

5. Resurrection

Volume Two: Traveling on the Horizons and in the Mind

Part I: Roaming and Getting Acquainted

1. Extortion

2. People of Purity and Truth

3. The World of Chivalry and Manliness

4. Nightlife

5. The Hell of Fanaticism

Part II: Return to the Original or Solving the Problem

1. And They're Cut from the Same Cloth . . .

2. Without Rhyme or Reason

3. "Party's Over!"

4. The Absent Who's Present

Conclusion

Translator's Postscript

Glossary

Bibliography

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