Saving Humanity, or How to Enter a Partnership with God
In this postscript to Nicholas Mosley’s posthumously published last novel, Rainbow People, Shiva Rahbaran discusses the core preoccupation of Mosley’s oeuvre through interweaving his ideas with her personal account of their first meeting that resulted in a...
Massoumeh – The Story of an Iranian Family in Times of Revolution
In this short story Shiva Rahbaran explores the pain, anger and helplessness faced by a family caught in the throes of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and its bloody aftermath. She depicts the family’s experience through the eyes of three sisters who come from an...
Where is the Revolution: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami
In this interview Shiva Rahbaran depicts Abbas Kiarostami’s place in New Iranian Cinema and his relationship to the Islamic Revolution and its consequences of the industry. In this personal account, she shows how this doyen of auteur cinema deals with the Islamic...![Nicholas Mosley – Impossible Object [1968]](https://shiva-rahbaran.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/impossible_object_Nicholas_Mosley-600x675.jpeg)
Nicholas Mosley – Impossible Object [1968]
In this article, Shiva Rahbaran, discusses the main concern of Nicholas Mosley’s novels by looking at his acclaimed novel Impossible Object. In his novels Nicholas Mosley tries to address one question only: how can man attain freedom? His novels are in way chapters of...