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I've started reading the Farsi Translation of the book. And to my disappointment, I've not been able to figure out what exactly was going on and who was who(!) at all, until I now that I have found the English version on the Internet. It is now that I clearly see how CENSORSHIP can deform Art and reduce it to a colourless mask. The translation starts itself this way: "Once upon a time, there was a girl called Maria. Like all girls she was born innocent.... " Yet the English version starts this w
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The novel begins in Brazil, where young Maria suffers her first unrequited love but determines that she will never bare her heart again. An accidental meeting on a Rio beach offers Maria an Swiss adventure so she then leaves her Brazilian life behind. In Geneva though she ends up a prostitute by night and goes to the library to read by day. Maria learn to explore both the darkest and the most mundane recesses of desire and love. She meets two very different gentlemen who take her to unexpected p
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I love just about everything that he writes. Very sexy, beautiful and lyrical. People in my book club were highlighting passages to go back and read again. Something that they had never done before.
mmmm..this is a hot read, told fromt he persepctive of the main character: a prostitute, it really illukinates every sexual practice and makes you wanna try them!
Sex is not an object, it is a subject.
makes you to think...
May 03, 2007
Maryam Golpayegani
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Izi
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