A Stone on a Grave
- Title
- A Stone on a Grave
- Original Title
- سنگی بر گوری
- Publisher
- Mazda Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Costa Mesa, CA, United States
- Genre
- Autobiography
- Format
- Book
- Medium
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Page Number
- xvi, 124
- ISBN / ISSN
- 9781568592220
- Does the translation have images?
- No
- WorldCat Link
- http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/227205916
- Series
- Bibliotheca Iranica, Literature Series, No. 11
- Sponsorship
- The A. K. Jabbari Trust
- OTHER PEOPLE INVOLVED
- Mohammad Reza Ghanoonparvar: Editor, Introduction
- Reviews
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Book Self Description
Sangi bar Guri [A Stone on a Grave] is a candid account of a male Iranian, in this case, a well-known essayist, fiction writer and socially and politically engaged intellectual, in his struggle to cope with his inability to produce offspring. In this book, Jalal Al-e Ahmad delves into the recesses of his own psyche to explore the roots of his identity as an Iranian male, his manhood. Consciously, he tries to uncover why having children to continue one's name and legacy, not unlike one's gravestone, should sign fy that he had existed, and why it should be of concern and importance after one's death. In a sense, he attempts to justify his own inability to have children. But, subconsciously, he reveals aspects of himself and his psyche that he may not have intended to reveal. This volume also includes an in-memoriam essay by the renowned writer and Al-e Ahmad's wife, Simin Daneshvar.