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Ashes in the Air by Ali Alizadeh
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Series
Alizadeh finds grace, wit and fire in this latest volume of poetry, which explores themes such as fatherhood and migration. It ranges from the Tehran of Alizadeh's childhood to the Australian coast of his teenage years. From the opening poem's hymn to mobility and renewal to the elegiac ending, Ashes in ...Show more
Iran My Grandfather by ALIZADEH Ali
Category: Biography
A vanished, tattered black and white photograph, taken in Tehran in 1946. The image of a sombre and inscrutable middle-aged man called Salman Fuladvand, a lieutenant and controversial police chief under Iran's second last king. It is the memory of this photograph that begins Ali Alizadeh's story of his ...Show more
New Angel by ALIZADEH Ali
Category: Fiction
The New Angel is the moving story of Bahram and Fereshteh (Persian for Angel) growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq war. At its heart is a love story between two adolescents at odds with the society in which they live, and the way in which our lives can be changed forever by ...Show more
The Last Days of Jeanne D'Arc by Ali Alizadeh
Category: Fiction
Jeanne is a young woman from rural France. She's a knight who wears men's clothing. The English call her Joan of Arc. Jeanne has led France to victory in epic battles. She hears ghostly voices and has unspeakable desires. The English want to burn her. Her king has abandoned her. Her heart has been broke ...Show more
Towards the End by Ali Alizadeh
Category: Poetry
Towards the End presents the contemporary world as broken and dying, a world that is moving irreversibly towards collapse as well as rebirth. The collection begins with the speaker’s disillusion with the ideals of capitalism, and the ironic realisation that happiness and prosperity may no longer be a ...Show more
Transactions by Ali Alizadeh
Category: Short Stories
An electric collection of fiction from the Prime Minister's Prize shortlisted author
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