Touba

Shahrnush Parsipur’s, Touba and the Meaning of Night, is considered one of the biggest achievements of Iranian literature written by a women. Her story tells the life of Touba a young girl who was restricted by her culture yet had to make life changing decisions at the young age of fourteen against a changing political setting. Parsipur invites us on a journey of complicated Iranian history defying Western stereotypes of Iranian women and culture. Her modern feminist approach has gotten her in arrested but she continues to write for she feels it is important to portray the lives of these Iranian women who do not have a voice of their own. In fact she started writing Touba and the Meaning of Night while she was imprisoned.