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Jalal's Sunset

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Simin Daneshvar
Translated by
Farzaneh Milani  and
Jo-Anne Hart
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Only three out of her 36 short stories are available in English (two translated by the writer herself), and yet Simin Daneshvar (b. 1921) is Iran's first woman novelist and one of the country's most significant fiction writers. Daneshvar has published Savooshoon (the most popular Iranian novel), three collections of short stories, ten translations, and a memoir about her late husband, Jalal Al-e Ahmad. Having retired from her teaching position at Tehran University, she lives in Iran and is now working on her second novel, The Wandering Island.

Daneshvar's literary work is a celebration of the feminine—her taste for life and love, her art of endurance and strength. While most of her female characters manage to survive, none reveals such stamina or resilience as the narrator of Jalal's Sunset. Confronted with the unexpected death of a husband, a colleague, and a collaborator, Daneshvar in this text portrays a real survivor.

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Information
Iranian Studies , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , Winter 1986 , pp. 47 - 63
Copyright
Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 1986

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1. Mahin Tavakoli, the wife of Mirza Abolghassem Tavakoli, was, and continues to be, a good friend of ours. Jalal dedicated On the Service and Treason of Intellectuals to this couple.