Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago

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Shahrnush Parsipur's 'Women Without Men' is crazily engaging. Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026.

8/10

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Background music: youtube.com/watch?v=ECkSkq0dRmo

Women Without Men: An internationally acclaimed novel that traces the interwoven destinies of five women – including a wealthy middle-aged housewife, a sex worker and a schoolteacher – as they arrive by different paths to live together in an abundant garden on the outskirts of Tehran. Drawing on elements of Islamic mysticism and recent Iranian history, the novel depicts women escaping the narrow confines of family and society, and imagines their future living in a world without men.

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