The Woman Who Read Too Much

by Bahíyyih Nakhjavání

Book Overview

Gossip was rife in the capital about the poetess of Qazvin. Some claimed she had been arrested for masterminding the murder of the grand Mullah, her uncle. Others echoed her words, and passed her poems from hand to hand. Everyone spoke of her beauty, and her dazzling intelligence. But most alarming to the Shah and the court was how the poetess could read. As her warnings and predictions became prophecies fulfilled, about the assassination of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804793255
• ISBN13: 9780804793254
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Redwood Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.6"