Sultan Valad, son of the Sufi poet Rumi, is given three notebooks found in the room of recently deceased mute servant Ayesha. Valad immediately recognizes them as containing valuable information about his father and stepmother Kerra, whom he knows took a special interest in Ayesha. As he reads, he finds out that Ayesha and his stepmother had extraordinary stories to tell. Not just one story but combination of many stories, Zivari's debut is filled with joy and sorrow, adventure and history, triumph and failure, redemption and love. The stories take Sultan through many worlds parallel to his...
Sultan Valad, son of the Sufi poet Rumi, is given three notebooks found in the room of recently deceased mute servant Ayesha. Valad immediately recogn...
Zivari's A Bath House in the Garden Adolescence is an intriguing mix of exotic Persian poetry, seduction literature, and fairy tale. At moments riveting, then scary, then disturbing, this work starts as a story for children, and morphs into a surrealistic meditation on the seductiveness of evil. Reading A Bath House in the Garden of Adolescence is like sitting next to Scherherazade on one of the 1001 Nights. Judith Remy Leder, poet (Tiger Woman, Pluribelle Press 2012)
Zivari's A Bath House in the Garden Adolescence is an intriguing mix of exotic Persian poetry, seduction literature, and fairy tale. At moments riveti...
