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by Parisa Reza
“Allahu Akbar! The world is so beautiful here this evening. What more could we ask?”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Parisa Reza was born in Tehran in 1954 to a family of intellectuals and artists, and moved to France at the age of seventeen. She was awarded the Prix Senghor 2015 for her novel, The Gardens of Consolation.