Shipwrecked: disaster and transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe and the modern world

This stunning collection of short stories captures the lives of women in Iran in the aftermath of the revolution.

Evoking the enormous isolation of daily existence, and the persistence of a people living under a repressive regime, these literary gems reward us with an inside view of a turbulent and closed society.Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone is a historian at the American University School of International Service and the editor of On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era.