Rooftops of Tehran

by Sholeh Wolpé

Book Overview

"In Sholeh Wolpe's Rooftops of Tehran , an unforgettable cast of characters emerges, from the morality policeman with the poison razor blade to the crow-girls flapping their black garments, from the woman with the bee-swarm tattoo emerging from her crotch to the author as a young girl on a Tehran rooftop with a God's eye view 'hovering above a city / where beatings, cheatings, prayers, songs, / and kindness are all one color's shades.' Here...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597091103
• ISBN13: 9781597091107
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"