  {"id":253656,"date":"2007-08-01T13:45:57","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T13:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/08\/01\/iranian-author-mahmoud-dowlatabadi-reviewed-in-the-sun\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:38:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:38:56","slug":"iranian-author-mahmoud-dowlatabadi-reviewed-in-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/08\/01\/iranian-author-mahmoud-dowlatabadi-reviewed-in-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Author Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Reviewed in the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The only other place that I&#8217;ve come across a reference to Mahmoud Dowlatabadi&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhpbooks.com\/soluch.html\"><i>Missing Soluch<\/i><\/a> was in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complete-review.com\/saloon\/archive\/200707a.htm#zg5\">Literary Saloon<\/a> where Orthofer commented on how it&#8217;s gotten basically no attention. <\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, Ben Lytal of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/59594?page_no=1\"><i>New York Sun<\/i><\/a> somewhat rectified the situation. <\/p>\n<p>The book sounds pretty interesting in and of itself&#8212;according to Melville House, it&#8217;s &#8220;the first [Iranian novel] ever written in the everyday language of the Iranian people&#8221;&#8212;but what caught my eye was that the Association of American Publishers&#8217; Freedom to Publish Committee &#8220;joined in launching this book to support the publication of voices censored by the State Department&#8217;s ban of books from the &#8216;Axis of Evil.&#8217; &#8220; <\/p>\n<p>As always, Melville House deserves praise for the political edge to their publishing mission, and I hope this sentiment catches on. More publishers out there should be out there discovering and promoting great books from &#8220;our&#8221; ideological enemies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only other place that I&#8217;ve come across a reference to Mahmoud Dowlatabadi&#8217;s Missing Soluch was in the Literary Saloon where Orthofer commented on how it&#8217;s gotten basically no attention. Thankfully, Ben Lytal of the New York Sun somewhat rectified the situation. The book sounds pretty interesting in and of itself&#8212;according to Melville House, it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[846,2856,2816,2866,836,1646],"class_list":["post-253656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ben-lytal","tag-mahmoud-dowlatabadi","tag-melville-house","tag-missing-soluch","tag-new-york-sun","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314576,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253656\/revisions\/314576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}