Barbara Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror" hanging in Iranian bookstores
Barbara Tuchman’s “A Distant Mirror” hanging in Iranian bookstores Tehran Times TEHRAN – A Persian translation of American historian Barbara Tuchman’s narrative history book “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century” has recently appeared in Iranian bookstores. Mahi is the publisher of the Persian translation and Hassan Afshar is the translator of the book first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1978. It won a 1980 U.S. National Book Award in History. The book’s focus is the Crisis of the Late Middle Ages, which caused widespread suffering in Europe in the ...
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