My Bird

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My Bird Middle East Literature in Translation Michael Beard and Adnan Haydar, Series Editors Other titles in Middle East Literature in Translation Alfred Farag and Egyptian Theater: The Poetics of Disguise, with Four Short Plays and a Monologue Dina A. Amin A Brave New Quest: 100 Modern Turkish Poems Talat S. Halman, trans. and ed.; Jayne L. Warner, assoc. ed. Canceled Memories: A Novel Nazik Saba Yared Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: An Anthology Shakir Mustafa, ed. and trans. A Cup of Sin: Selected Poems Simin Behbahani; Farzaneh Milani and Kaveh Safa, eds. and trans. Distant Train: A Novel Ibrahim Abdel Megid; Hosam Aboul-Ela, trans. The Journals of Sarab Affan: A Novel Jabra Ibrahim Jabra; Ghassan Nasr, trans. My Thousand and One Nights: A Novel of Mecca Raja Alem and Tom McDonough The Pistachio Seller Reem Bassiouney The Virgin of Solitude: A Novel Taghi Modarressi; Nasrin Rahimieh, trans. My Bird F A R I B A V A F I Translated from the Persian by M A HNA Z KOUSH A and NA SR IN J E W EL L With an Afterword by Farzaneh Milani S Y R A C U S E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S English translation copyright © 2009 by Syracuse University Press Syracuse, NY 13244-5160 First English language edition 2009 09 10 11 12 13 14 6 5 4 3 2 1 Authorized translation of My Bird (Parandehye man), by Fariba Vafi, from the Persian language edition, copyright © 2002 by Nashr-e-Markaz Publishing Company, Tehran, Iran. Permission is gratefully acknowledged.  The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. For a listing of books published and distributed by Syracuse University Press, visit our Web site at SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu ISBN: 978-0-8156-0944-5 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Vafi, Fariba. [Parandah-’i man. English] My bird / Fariba Vafi ; translated from the Persian by Mahnaz Kousha and Nasrin Jewell ; with an afterword by Farzaneh Milani. — 1st English language ed. p. cm. — (Middle East literature in translation) ISBN 978-0-8156-0944-5 (cloth : alk. paper) I. Kousha, Mahnaz. II. Jewell, Nasrin. III. Title. PK6561.V25P3713 2009 891’.5534—dc22 2009029587 Manufactured in the United States of America ...