Shirin

Synopsis

A multi-generational literary audiobook tracing one Persian family across a century, exploring how prejudice is quietly inherited, shaped, and sustained through generations. Shirin: A Hundred Years, Rooted and Uprooted traces four generations of one Persian family across a century of upheaval—from the streets of Kashan to the prisons of pre-revolutionary Iran and beyond. At its center is Shirin, whose life becomes a lens through which inherited prejudice, faith, silence, and belonging quietly unfold. Beginning long before the Iranian Revolution, the book asks how intolerance takes root—not only through politics or religion, but through what families teach, what societies normalize, and what remains unspoken. Translated from the original Farsi by the author's daughters, Farnaz and Mehr, and narrated by Mehr Mansuri, Shirin is both a daughter's act of preservation and a mother's enduring reflection on the deeper roots of human division.