Events for Iranian Author Shahriar Mandanipour, Author of 'Moon Brow'

From “one of Iran's most important living fiction writers” (The Guardian), Shahriar Mandanipour's Moon Brow is a fantastically imaginative story of love and war narrated by two angel scribes perched on the shoulders of a shell-shocked Iranian soldier who’s searching for the mysterious woman haunting his dreams. More than a decade in the making and brilliantly translated by Sara Khalili, it's the first novel from Shahriar Mandanipour, whose work has been banned in Iran, since Censoring an Iranian Love Story (Knopf, 2009), which was extolled by The New Yorker, The Guardian, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and more.

Don't miss your chance to see Shahriar Mandanipour in person at these upcoming events! 

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Celebrate International Translation Day with a Venta / Sölu / מְכִירָה / Продажа!

This International Translation Day, we'd like to toast the intrepid translators who navigate between languages to bring us the richness of the world's cultures. These extraordinary linguistic artists have brought us compelling, eye-opening stories from Cuba, Hungary, Iceland, Brazil, Iran, Israel, Mexico, Madagascar, Russia, Albania, Uzbekistan, and elsewhere.  

Without Alfred MacAdam, we wouldn't have the sensorial firehose of the novels of the polymathic Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky; without Alison Entrekin, we wouldn't enjoy the deliciously brutal feminist takedown of macho culture that is Fernanda Torres's The End. We not only #ReadBannedBooks, but we translate them too, with the help of champions of free expression such as Will Evans—a publisher of books in translation himself—who brought us the book Oleg Kashin got beaten by Putin's thugs for writing; and Carol Ermakova, who brought us exiled Uzbek author Hamid Ismailov's dive into the literal underbelly of Moscow in The Underground.  We celebrate classic translations too, such as John Ormsby's foundational rendering of Cervantes's masterpiece Don Quixote—a book we got so excited about publishing that we translated the first chapter into languages from Hebrew to Zapotec. 

To celebrate our community of translators, we're giving our readers a 25% discount off any of our translated books through the weekend when you buy directly from the Restless website and use the discount code TRANSLATIONDAY at checkout. Scroll through the gallery below to see what's on offer!

The Israeli Republic on PRI's The World

PRI's The World has broadcast a segment featuring Restless title The Israeli Republic. PRI correspondent Daniel Estrin interviewed the book's translator, Samuel Thrope, as well as the Israeli diplomat who arranged Jalal Al-e Ahmad's voyage to Israel, Zvi Rafiah. Rafiah recently read Al-e Ahmad's travelogue for the first time in its English translation. 

You can listen to the segment below or read the web story here.

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