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A review by evh1998
Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour
4.0
If you live in a country that allows you to buy and read literature when, where, and how you want without interfering with the integrity of the work, then please, exercise this right and read this book. This work will make you realize just how lucky you are to have this right.
The author does an excellent job of explaining the way in which censorship occurs, as well as its effects on society and individuals. The author artfully blends the story of a novelist who struggles to maintain his artistic integrity while writing and attempting to publish his work in his native Iran, and the tale that the novelist is writing and editing. The two plots are simultaneously told and often parallel each other. The reader is shown how and why the novelist makes the choices he does as he edits his story. This allows the reader into the fictional novelist head, and consequently into the creative oppression forced onto the novelist by the government as well.
I have never felt more patriotic or thankful to know that I have the right to read literature that isn't required by law to be censored. So please, read this book. Read it because you can. Read it in celebration of the fact that there are places on this earth that allow us to read books like this. You won't be sorry that you did.
The author does an excellent job of explaining the way in which censorship occurs, as well as its effects on society and individuals. The author artfully blends the story of a novelist who struggles to maintain his artistic integrity while writing and attempting to publish his work in his native Iran, and the tale that the novelist is writing and editing. The two plots are simultaneously told and often parallel each other. The reader is shown how and why the novelist makes the choices he does as he edits his story. This allows the reader into the fictional novelist head, and consequently into the creative oppression forced onto the novelist by the government as well.
I have never felt more patriotic or thankful to know that I have the right to read literature that isn't required by law to be censored. So please, read this book. Read it because you can. Read it in celebration of the fact that there are places on this earth that allow us to read books like this. You won't be sorry that you did.