Night: Vol. 1

Between 2006 and 2011, Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami - author of A Wolf on Watch , With the Wind and Wind and Leaf , three books of original verse - released his selections from and adaptations of four masters of Persian Nima (1895 - 1960), Hafez, Saadi and Rumi (all from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries). This material is presented to English-speaking readers for the first time, in eight Nima's Water , Hafez's Wine , Saadi's Tears and Rumi's Fire . In 2015, Kiarostami published two further books, the dual anthology entitled Night , his selections from a variety of classical and contemporary poets. In the Shadow of Trees brings together English translations of all these books.
Abbas Kiarostami was one of Iran's leading filmmakers who also published several books of photographs and poetry.
Persian/English