Blue logos

""Blue Logos" is the second major work of prominent Iranian writer, Shahrnush Parsipur, to be published in an English translation. In this a magical tale, Parsipur engages the reader in Western and Eastern philosophy, art, literature, mythology, fairytales, and music, from China and Mongolia to the Middle East, and from India to Europe and the New World. With her narrator, we travel throughout history, from the past to the present and future, and aided by her imagination, we go to the depth of the earth and soar the heavens and beyond. Parsipur's narrator is akin to Scheherazade of "One Thousand and One Nights." "Blue Logos" is a tale of tales that is not merely intended to entertain, but also to entice. Within the first pages of this novel, readers familiar with recent Iranian history will soon identify the time and circumstances of the frame story as merely a few years after the Islamic Revolution of 1978-79 in Iran, in the late 1980s when, after having launched a military invasion of the southern part of Iran in 1981, Iraq started aerial bombings of the capital city of Tehran, which caused heavy destruction and casualties. It is also a time when the Islamic regime has imposed dr