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Two Narratives of One Land (Bilingual Persian–English)

by Rui Carvalho

Two cousins, Lisbon and Tehran, debate 3,000 years of Iranian history.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

One land. Three thousand years. Two very different ways of telling the story.

Ali grew up in Lisbon and came to know Iran through the libraries and universities of Europe. His cousin Amir lives in Tehran and learned his country’s history from school textbooks, the verses of the Shahnameh and family memory. Over a few evenings at a café table in Alfama, the two cousins walk through the whole history of Iran together.

In every era, Ali explains how Western historians see events, and Amir answers with the view from inside Iran. When they disagree, they say so, and they always cite their sources.

Inside this bilingual edition:

• The complete Persian text with a full English translation
• Twelve chapters: Elam and the Medes, Cyrus and Darius, Alexander, the Parthians and Sasanians, the Arab conquest and the revival of Persian, the Mongols, the Safavids (and Portuguese Hormuz), the Constitutional Revolution, the 1953 coup, the 1979 revolution and the Iran–Iraq War
• Source notes for every chapter, a timeline and a full bibliography

For readers curious about Iran beyond the headlines, for the Iranian diaspora and their families, and for learners of Persian who want a real, substantial text with its translation.

The characters are fictional; the events, names and historical viewpoints are real and checked against reliable sources.

کتابی دوزبانه: متن کامل فارسی همراه با ترجمهٔ کامل انگلیسی. — روی کاروالیو

Book Details:

• Genre: Historical dialogue; Iran; bilingual Persian–English
• Format: eBook

Persian–English Edition

Persian–Portuguese Edition