Women Without Men (novella)

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Women Without Men (Persian: زنان بدون مردان, romanized: Zanān bidūn-i mardān) is a 1989 magical realist novella by Iranian author Shahrnush Parsipur. The novel follows the interconnected lives of five women in Tehran in the wake of the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, who all ultimately unite in a garden in Karaj. A film adaptation by the same name was released in 2009. Two translations of the book into English have been realized: one by Kamran Talattof and Jocelyn Sharlet, released in 1998, and another by Faridoun Farrokh, released initially in 2011, and again in 2026. Farrokh's translation was longlisted for the 2026 International Booker Prize.

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