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LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER A spellbinding debut novel about the trailblazing Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, who defied society s expectations to find her voice and her destiny
A complex and beautiful rendering of [a] vanished country and its scattered people, a reminder of the power and purpose of art, and an ode to female creativity under a patriarchy that repeatedly tries to snuff it out. The New York Times Book Review (Editors Choice)
All through her childhood in Tehran, Forugh Farrokhzad is told that Persian daughters should be quiet and modest. She is taught only to obey, but she always finds ways to rebel gossiping with her sister among the fragrant roses of her mother s walled garden, venturing to the forbidden rooftop to roughhouse with her three brothers, writing poems to impress her strict, disapproving father, and sneaking out to flirt with a teenage paramour over café glacé. During the summer of 1950, Forugh s passion for poetry takes flight and tradition seeks to clip her wings.
Forced into a suffocating marriage, Forugh runs away and falls into an affair that fuels her desire to write and to achieve freedom and independence. Forugh s poems are considered both scandalous and brilliant; she is heralded by some as a national treasure, vilified by others as a demon influenced by the West. She perseveres, finding love with a notorious filmmaker and living by her own rules at enormous cost. But the power of her writing only grows stronger amid the upheaval of the Iranian revolution.
Inspired by Forugh Farrokhzad s verse, letters, films, and interviews and including original translations of her poems this haunting novel uses the lens of fiction to capture the tenacity, spirit, and conflicting desires of a brave woman who represents the birth of feminism in Iran and who continues to inspire generations of women around the world.
Praise for Song of a Captive Bird
If poetry is emotion rendered incendiary, then Forugh Farrokhzad was made of fire. . . . Song of a Captive Bird is an unsparing account of the necessity and consequences of speaking out. BookPage
Sometimes, simply choosing whom to love is a political act. Vogue
Forugh Farrokhzad s short life brimmed with controversy and rebellion . . . .This feminist icon inspired Darznik s imaginative debut. Ms.
A complex and beautiful rendering of [a] vanished country and its scattered people, a reminder of the power and purpose of art, and an ode to female creativity under a patriarchy that repeatedly tries to snuff it out. The New York Times Book Review (Editors Choice)
All through her childhood in Tehran, Forugh Farrokhzad is told that Persian daughters should be quiet and modest. She is taught only to obey, but she always finds ways to rebel gossiping with her sister among the fragrant roses of her mother s walled garden, venturing to the forbidden rooftop to roughhouse with her three brothers, writing poems to impress her strict, disapproving father, and sneaking out to flirt with a teenage paramour over café glacé. During the summer of 1950, Forugh s passion for poetry takes flight and tradition seeks to clip her wings.
Forced into a suffocating marriage, Forugh runs away and falls into an affair that fuels her desire to write and to achieve freedom and independence. Forugh s poems are considered both scandalous and brilliant; she is heralded by some as a national treasure, vilified by others as a demon influenced by the West. She perseveres, finding love with a notorious filmmaker and living by her own rules at enormous cost. But the power of her writing only grows stronger amid the upheaval of the Iranian revolution.
Inspired by Forugh Farrokhzad s verse, letters, films, and interviews and including original translations of her poems this haunting novel uses the lens of fiction to capture the tenacity, spirit, and conflicting desires of a brave woman who represents the birth of feminism in Iran and who continues to inspire generations of women around the world.
Praise for Song of a Captive Bird
If poetry is emotion rendered incendiary, then Forugh Farrokhzad was made of fire. . . . Song of a Captive Bird is an unsparing account of the necessity and consequences of speaking out. BookPage
Sometimes, simply choosing whom to love is a political act. Vogue
Forugh Farrokhzad s short life brimmed with controversy and rebellion . . . .This feminist icon inspired Darznik s imaginative debut. Ms.
A complex and beautiful rendering of [a] vanished country and its scattered people, a reminder of the power and purpose of art, and an ode to female creativity under a patriarchy that repeatedly tries to snuff it out. The New York Times Book Review (Editors Choice)
If poetry is emotion rendered incendiary, then Forugh Farrokhzad was made of fire. . . . Song of a Captive Bird is an unsparing account of the necessity and consequences of speaking out. BookPage
Sometimes, simply choosing whom to love is a political act. Vogue
Forugh Farrokhzad s short life brimmed with controversy and rebellion . . . .This feminist icon inspired Darznik s imaginative debut. Ms.
Sumptuously captures a fierce and turbulent life, as well as a vanished country swept away by revolution. Newsweek
A stunning and powerful debut . . . At a time when our country is at war with art and women, this courageous book is required reading. Bret Anthony Johnston, author of Remember Me Like This
A thrilling and provocative portrait of a powerful woman set against a sweeping panorama of Iranian history. Kirkus Reviews
Written with the urgent tenderness of a love letter, this soaring novel is a heart-breaker and heart-mender at once a gorgeous tribute to the brave and brilliant poet remembered in its pages. Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage and Silver Sparrow
These are times for stories that bring one culture nearer to another, and that is exactly what Jasmin Darznik has done, pulling close the hearts of girls and women and poets to tell Forugh Farrokhzad s remarkable story. Laleh Khadivi, author of A Good Country
Farrokhzad is known as the Sylvia Plath of Iran, and the two poets were contemporaries, living lives at once starkly different and remarkably attuned, then dying young and tragically. Plath s renown is universal; Darznik s enthralling and illuminating novel will introduce Farrokhzad to a whole new world of readers. Booklist (starred review)
A beautiful writer! In elegant, intimate prose, Darznik portrays pre-Revolutionary Iran and a woman who transcended the prejudices of her time. Susan Cheever
Darznik s marvelous homage to Forugh captures the frustration and determination she must have felt to overcome the strictures of her environment, beautifully recreating her difficult path to fame. Publishers Weekly
Farrokhzad s determination to live freely and authentically, and to express that determination in her art, proved unbearable to the fundamentalist state. Darznik brings her own poetic sensibility to bear on this tragic, but ultimately inspiring, act of creative remembrance. Jonathan Dee, author of The Locals
Alive and sensuous, Darznik s prose mirrors Forugh s poetry, making no separation between life and work, leaving open and unguarded that door we so often find closed. Donia Bijan, author of The Last Days of Café Leila
If poetry is emotion rendered incendiary, then Forugh Farrokhzad was made of fire. . . . Song of a Captive Bird is an unsparing account of the necessity and consequences of speaking out. BookPage
Sometimes, simply choosing whom to love is a political act. Vogue
Forugh Farrokhzad s short life brimmed with controversy and rebellion . . . .This feminist icon inspired Darznik s imaginative debut. Ms.
Sumptuously captures a fierce and turbulent life, as well as a vanished country swept away by revolution. Newsweek
A stunning and powerful debut . . . At a time when our country is at war with art and women, this courageous book is required reading. Bret Anthony Johnston, author of Remember Me Like This
A thrilling and provocative portrait of a powerful woman set against a sweeping panorama of Iranian history. Kirkus Reviews
Written with the urgent tenderness of a love letter, this soaring novel is a heart-breaker and heart-mender at once a gorgeous tribute to the brave and brilliant poet remembered in its pages. Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage and Silver Sparrow
These are times for stories that bring one culture nearer to another, and that is exactly what Jasmin Darznik has done, pulling close the hearts of girls and women and poets to tell Forugh Farrokhzad s remarkable story. Laleh Khadivi, author of A Good Country
Farrokhzad is known as the Sylvia Plath of Iran, and the two poets were contemporaries, living lives at once starkly different and remarkably attuned, then dying young and tragically. Plath s renown is universal; Darznik s enthralling and illuminating novel will introduce Farrokhzad to a whole new world of readers. Booklist (starred review)
A beautiful writer! In elegant, intimate prose, Darznik portrays pre-Revolutionary Iran and a woman who transcended the prejudices of her time. Susan Cheever
Darznik s marvelous homage to Forugh captures the frustration and determination she must have felt to overcome the strictures of her environment, beautifully recreating her difficult path to fame. Publishers Weekly
Farrokhzad s determination to live freely and authentically, and to express that determination in her art, proved unbearable to the fundamentalist state. Darznik brings her own poetic sensibility to bear on this tragic, but ultimately inspiring, act of creative remembrance. Jonathan Dee, author of The Locals
Alive and sensuous, Darznik s prose mirrors Forugh s poetry, making no separation between life and work, leaving open and unguarded that door we so often find closed. Donia Bijan, author of The Last Days of Café Leila