THE DRUM TOWER
Book ID/图书代码： 08090014B69023
English Summary/英文概要： In the closing years of the rule of the Shah, young Talkhoon lives with her sister, Taara, with her grandmother Khanum-Jaan, her grandfather Baba-Ji, and her disturbing uncle, Asaad, in the house known as The Drum Tower in Tehran. In the tower, Baba-Ji continues his life’s work, an unfinishable book on the Simorgh, the Bird of Knowledge, but revolution of one sort or another is on the way and Talkhoon’s father is in hiding. The girls live with the mystery of their missing mother, and Khanum-Jaan’s inexplicable hatred of her. In a book peopled by amazing characters and events, shot through with magic realism, Talkhoon’s life, and the life of her country, rush to their inevitable destinies.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 沙哈在位的最后几年间，年轻的塔胡恩和姐姐塔拉，祖母卡努姆，祖父巴步吉和不安份的叔叔阿萨德居住在德黑兰的鼓楼中。在这座居所中，巴步吉继续着他毕生的事业，创作一本写不完的有关日神鸟，也就是智慧鸟的书。关于这个家庭，塔胡恩的爸爸还在竭力隐瞒一件事，那就是姐妹俩母亲的去向以及祖母卡努姆对她莫名的仇恨。读者可以在《鼓楼》中找到许多不可思议的人物和事件，就在这梦幻般的现实中上演。塔胡恩的生活，整个国家的命运都在不可避免地向前推进。（XAT）
Awards/获奖情况：’Sparse and courageous.’ --Margaret Atwood, of The Bathhouse
’Farnoosh Moshiri is Iran’s Solzhenitsyn.’ --Juris Jurjevicse
Awards and Grants
Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Fiction Award (for The Drum Tower)—2013
Florida Review Editors’ Prize for Creative Nonfiction—2008
Valiente Award: for artists who have taken risks to speak out on social justice issues—2006
Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers (for Against Gravity)—Spring 2006
Borders Books January Original Voices selection (for Against Gravity)—2006
Black Heron Press Award for Social Fiction (for The Crazy Dervish and the Pomegranate Tree)—2004
Black Heron Press Award for Social Fiction (for The Bathhouse)—2001
Barnes and Noble Bookstores of Houston Author of the Month (for At the Wall of the Almighty)—2000
Barthelme Fellowship Award in Nonfiction—1996
Farnoosh Moshiri has won three regional awards: two from the North Harris Montgomery College
District (2002, 2003), and one from the University of Houston, Clear Lake (1996). She also was awarded a C. Glenn Cambor/Inprint fellowship in 1992.
About the Author/作者介绍： 伊朗作家法诺什•莫斯利在两伊战争前创作了许多戏剧，短片故事和文学杂志作品，而在上世纪80年代后，法诺什的作品开始在伊朗境外出版。1983年，伊朗开始大规模抓捕知识分子，女权主义者和政治活动家，法诺什逃离了自己的国家，她在阿富汗和印度的难民营先后居住了四年，于1987年移民到了美国。她的小说和作品集包括《全能的长城》（领达中心，1999年)），《澡堂》（黑鹭出版社，2001年，灯塔出版社，2002年），《疯狂的苦行僧和石榴树》（黑鹭出版社，2004年），以及《对抗重力》（企鹅出版社，2006年）。法诺什现是休斯顿中心大学杰出驻地作家。
Iranian born writer Farnoosh Moshiri has published plays, short stories, and translations in Iranian literary magazines before the 1979 revolution and in anthologies published outside Iran in the 1980s. In 1983, she fled her country after a massive arrest of secular intellectuals, feminists, and political activists. She lived in refugee camps of Afghanistan and India for four years before emigrating to the U.S. in 1987. Her novels and collections include At the Wall of Almighty (Interlink 1999), The Bathhouse (Black Heron Press 2001, Beacon Press, 2002), The Crazy Dervish and the Pomegranate Tree (Black Heron Press 2004), and Against Gravity (Penguin, 2006). Currently, she is the Distinguished Resident Writer at the University of Houston-Downtown.
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Sandstone Press (UK) and Black Heron Press (North America) for publication in October 2014.
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