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Key BIB26901
Reference type Book
Title Persian Brides : A Novel
Author Rabinyan, Dorit
Translator Lotan, Yael
Year1998
Date 1998
Publisher George Braziller
Place published New York
Issue 10.
Abstract A funny tale on the inhabitants of a Jewish quarter in a 19th century Persian town. A pregnant girl pines for marriage, a prostitute is accused of sleeping with the devil, a wife hides her ugly features by spreading a thin layer of goat butter on her husband's glasses. A first novel by an Israeli writer. One of the characters is a Bahá'í woman, so the word appears throughout this section.
Notes Bahá'í Faith: pp. 191-209.
Language English
Keywords JEWS; IRAN; FICTION
Number of pages 236
Edition 1st ed.

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