TY - BOOK AU - Mandanīʹpūr,Shahriyār AU - Khalili,Sara TI - Censoring an Iranian love story: a novel SN - 9781408702222 (pbk. : C format) U1 - 891.5533 PY - 2009/// CY - London PB - Little, Brown KW - Authorship KW - Fiction KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Iran KW - 21st century N1 - Translation of previously unpublished Persian novel N2 - Shahriar Mandanipour, a contemporary and controversial Iranian writer, presents his first novel written in English. Seamlessly entwining two related narratives, Mandanipour unfolds the tale of an Iranian writer attempting to pen a love story set in present-day Iran. Similar to Romeo and Juliet, the writer's two lovers struggle to endure against powerful external forces. Unfortunately, though, the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance furiously attempts to censor the writer's work ER -