Uploaded September 2017 | Updated September 2026, 38 minutes ago
In this episode of Cover to Cover, Shokoofeh Azar discusses her new novel, "The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree".
Stylistically similar to Eka Kurniawan’s acclaimed "Beauty is a Wound", the novel is set in the aftermath of Iran’s Islamic Revolution of 1979. Many scenes blend heavy darkness with allegorical flights of imagination, marking the author as an assured fabulist. She brings to colourful life an extended family replete with beauty, humour and tragedy.
In this episode of Cover to Cover, Shokoofeh Azar discusses her new novel, "The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree".
Stylistically similar to Eka Kurniawan’s acclaimed "Beauty is a Wound", the novel is set in the aftermath of Iran’s Islamic Revolution of 1979. Many scenes blend heavy darkness with allegorical flights of imagination, marking the author as an assured fabulist. She brings to colourful life an extended family replete with beauty, humour and tragedy.
