 Five-year-old Banafsheh is traveling on a train with her grandmother. She meets a kindly teacher who reminds her of her dead mother. The teacher is also a writer, who reads her works-in-progress to her fifth grade students. She promises to call Banafsheh and to visit and tell her stories. But she does not call. The book is a curious look at metafiction, relationships, and how fiction and reality wrap together. This sophisticated read portrays contemporary Iranian society and universal experiences. mjw |
| Title: That Night’s Train Author: Ahmad Akbarpour Illustrator: Isabelle Arsenault Publisher: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, Toronto, Ontario Copyright: 2012 Original language: Persian Translator: Majid Saghafi Original title: Ghatar-e An Shab Original publisher: Cheshmeh Publications Co., Tehran, Iran Original copyright: 2012 ISBN: 978-1-55498-169-4 Hardcover pages: 96 Age range: 9 up Genre: Fiction Book setting: Iran Author’s ethnicity: Iranian Author’s residence: Iran Illustrator’s ethnicity: Canadian Illustrator’s residence: Canada Subjects: Girls, Iran, Promises, Teachers |
That Night’s Train
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