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The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
Written by Shokoofeh Azar
Narrated by Priya Ayyar
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Told from the gaze of a young girl, this novel speaks of the power of imagination when confronted with cruelty and of our need to make sense of trauma through storytelling.
Author
Shokoofeh Azar
Shokoofeh Azar is an author of essays, articles, children's books, and novels as well as the first Iranian woman to hitchhike the entire length of the Silk Road. Her first novel, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree, was shortlisted for Australia's Stella Prize for Fiction and is her first novel to be translated into English. She moved to Australia as a political refugee in 2011.
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