Women Without Men - Shahrnush Parsipur renouncing her womanhood to live

renouncing her womanhood to live as a man

This volume contains five of his greatest short tales

Translator: Louise Heal Kawai

a teenage girl's body was found quartered and burned

Together they learn to share their present

Women Without Men - Shahrnush Parsipur renouncing her womanhood to liveWomen Without Men traces the interwoven destinies of five women including a wealthy middle aged housewife, a sex worker and a schoolteacher as they arrive by different paths to live together in an abundant garden on the outskirts of Tehran. Drawing on elements of Islamic mysticism and recent Iranian history, this unforgettable novel depicts women escaping the narrow confines of family and society, and imagines their future living in a world without