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For three thousand years, a people has stood waiting
An anonymous manuscript has unsettled the orderly life Adura has built in Tehran. When its elusive author finally telephones, she goes to meet the eccentric scholar she has imagined. The man waiting for her is nothing like him. *** An Excerpt from Only the Arrow Does Not Die, a novel by Arash Hejazi Adura was…
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The Gaze of the Gazelle: Telling the Story They Wanted Silenced
On 20 June 2009, during the protests that followed Iran’s disputed presidential election, a young woman named Neda Agha-Soltan was shot in the streets of Tehran. Images of her final moments travelled around the world and became one of the defining images of Iran’s Green Movement. For the young doctor who tried and failed to…
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Only the Arrow Does Not Die: A New Novel by Arash Hejazi
Caravanserai Press is publishing Only the Arrow Does Not Die, a new English-language novel by British-Iranian writer Arash Hejazi. Rooted in Persian mythology. the novel moves between contemporary Tehran and the mythic world of Kay Khusro, the legendary ‘living king’ who ended the generations-long wars between Iran and Turan, relinquished his throne and vanished, destined…
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From Caravan to Caravanserai Press
Caravanserai Press is a new publishing house with a history that began more than four decades ago. In 1997, Caravan Books was founded in Tehran. It belonged to a literary culture in which books mattered intensely, but in which the freedom to write, publish and read could never be taken for granted. Over the decades…
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Paulo Coelho’s foreword on The Gaze of the Gazelle
On 20 June 2009, a brief video clip was circulated all over the world. It showed the death of a young, unarmed woman called Neda, who had been shot in the chest while taking part in a protest in Tehran and was bleeding to death on the street. Few images in the contemporary world have…