''Savušun'' (also spelled ''Savushun,'' fa, سووشون) is a 1969

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novel A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itsel ...

by Iranian writer

Simin Daneshvar Simin Dāneshvar ( fa, سیمین دانشور)‎ (28 April 1921 – 8 March 2012) was an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator. She was largely regarded as the first major Iranian woman novelist. Her books dealt with the ...

. It is the first novel in Persian written by a female author. The story is about the life of a landowning family in

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faced to the occupation of

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during

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. ''Savušun'' has sold over five hundred thousand copies in Iran. ''Savušun'' is "groundbreaking" and highly acclaimed work in contemporary

literature, with both literary and popular success within and outside Iran. The novel has been translated to

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and 16 other languages. When writing about the novel's importance, critic

Kaveh Bissari Kaveh may refer to: * Kaveh (name), both a given name and surname * ''Kaveh'' (magazine), a political and literary journal on the Iranian identity (1916–1922) * Kaveh (periodical) *Kaveh the blacksmith, figure in Iranian mythology Places *Kaveh, ...

describing an exact translation by

M.R. Ghanoonparvar M.R. Ghanoonparvar is a Professor Emeritus of Persian and Comparative Literature at the faculty of Middle Eastern studies at the University of Texas, Austin, whose expertise includes the works of Simin Daneshvar, Sadeq Chubak, and Sadeq Hedayat. ...

in 1990 and the version ''A Persian Requiem'' by Roxane Zand in 1991. Daneshvar uses

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and

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in ''Savušun.'' Linguistically, ''savušun'' is a corruption of '' Siyâvašun'', which refers to the traditional mourning for Siyâvaš, a hero in the ''

Šâhnâme The ''Shahnameh'' or ''Shahnama'' ( fa, شاهنامه, Šāhnāme, lit=The Book of Kings, ) is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of some 50,0 ...

''.

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Savushun on ''Iranica''

سووشون
(in Persian) Persian-language novels 1969 novels Political novels Iranian novels Novels set in Iran {{1960s-poli-novel-stub

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