Domestic Monsters - A Short Story by Fereshteh Ahmadi - Translated from Persian by Caroline Croskery - 2019 - included in Book of Tehran: A City in Short Stories introduced by Orkideh Behrouzan

 Domestic Monsters - A Short Story by Fereshteh Ahmadi - Translated from Persian by Caroline Croskery - 2019 - included in Book of Tehran: A City in Short Stories introduced by Orkideh Behrouzan  

The Guardian has a very informative article focusing on the literary career of Fereshteh Ahmadi under the restrictions of the laws of Iran.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jun/20/iran-writer-fereshteh-ahmadi-i-want-to-stroll-tehran-streets-at-night-like-men-can

"Domestic Monsters" by Fereshteh Ahmadi, 15 Pages, is the life story of a woman raised by an indifferent at times cruel mother who she came to hate.  Her only friend was her tutor.

This is a very powerful unflincing look at how women struggle to exercise a measure of freedom in a repressive society that values their opinions much less than those of men.  

I do not wish to give away the developments in the woman's life.

I will just share a bit about what she says about living in Tehran.

"A city like Tehran; a remote city where they couldn’t reach me. A city big enough for me to get lost in. And I did. I was able to get lost in there and at the same time, find myself. Standing where I am now, I am strong enough these days to turn around and look at how far I’ve come, and to write this letter without my hands shaking. I owe it to this city. A lot of people think Tehran is a place where innocence is lost, but it woke me from a very long sleep. Your daughter also wanted to find refuge here. She wanted to lose herself in the halls of the university dormitory. I didn’t teach her these things."

Fereshteh Ahmadi is a novelist, short story writer, literary critic and editor. After studying architecture at the University of Tehran, she became a journalist in the late 1990s, and has since gone on to publish three collections of short stories: Everyone’s Sarah (2004), featuring ‘Television’, selected by the Hooshang Golshiri Foundation as one of the best short stories of the year; Hyperthermia (2013); and Domestic Monsters (2016). She has also published two novels: The Fairy of Forgetfulness (2007), finalist of the Mehregan Award and the Rouzi-Rouzegari Awards for the Bookseller’s Choice of the Best Novel, and Cheese Forest (2008), as well as a children’s book: Nameless. She works as an editor for several publishing houses and is a member of the jury of the Golshiri and Rouzi-Rouzegari awards.