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Austėja Merkevičiūtė (International) assertion Austėja Merkevičiūtė i(24745899 works by)
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11 9 y separately published work icon The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree Shokoofeh Azar , ( trans. Austėja Merkevičiūtė with title Nušvitimas žaliojoje slyvoje ) Lithuania : Sofoklis , 2022 11491879 2017 single work novel

'This book is an extraordinarily powerful and evocative literary novel set in Iran in the period immediately after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. 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. 

'The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree is really an embodiment of Iranian life in constant oscillation, struggle and play between four opposing poles: life and death; politics and religion. The sorrow residing in the depths of our joy is the product of a life between these four poles.' (Publication summary)
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