Daneshvar’s presentation of Zari creates an uneasiness in the reader and quite rightly it makes one think that beneath the depictions of straightforward and explicit inner feelings that Zari expresses there is some deep layer of emotion that has not surfaced. In Savushun the authoress tried to explore the sensibilities of a woman (Zari) who though happily married suffers the heroic stance of her husband who takes on himself to stand against the corrupt Iranian regime and its foreign occupiers. Simin Daneshvar’s Savushun (in farsi it’s called Suvashun) is mourning for the state of women in Iran and Iran itself disjointed from its history as number of foreigners came through and changed the course of its development into a mixed hybrid of cultures yet longing for its roots.
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