Women Without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur Sleeve design with short story by Anousha Payne
Selected by London-based sculptor and painter Anousha Payne, this edition features Women Without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur. Anousha’s cover artwork, a delicate watercolour, draws inspiration from this powerful collection of short stories, which explores the lives of modern women navigating societal constraints in contemporary Iran.
A best-seller upon release, Women Without Men has since been banned. Through tales of magic, emancipation, and transformation - where women merge with nature, take root as trees, and cross between worlds - Parsipur crafts a narrative of resistance through humour, imagination, and bravery. Anousha’s artistic universe shares this spirit, bridging reality and the surreal.
This edition also includes Grandmother, a striking new short story by Anousha, published here for the first time. We are honoured to present these works together.
