Shokoufeh Azar

The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree

Mother shelters daughter beneath magic greengage tree during Iranian revolution

About the author

Shokoufeh Azar

Shokoufeh Azar is an Iranian-Australian author whose The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree is a magical realist novel about an Iranian family during the Islamic Revolution, told by a ghost. The novel draws on Persian literary tradition and folktale. It was longlisted for the International Booker Prize.