A review by gillianebersole
Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour

4.0

In his book, Censoring an Iranian Love Story, Shahriar Mandanipour explores the detrimental effects of the extreme censoring of speech, books, and relationships. His book uses bold text to show what can actually be published in Iran, and he comments throughout in regular typeface to explain how difficult writing a love story becomes with the extreme censorship. Often, he results to metaphors and abstract language to describe a simple embrace, something that is not allowed.

The author weaves a beautiful love story amidst the constraints of his society and culture, and the book left me thinking about censorship for weeks after.
http://polyliteramore.blogspot.com/2017/07/censoring-love-and-books.html