My Share

My Share Book Description "Really, who was I? Was I the wife of a rebel and traitor, or the hero of a freedom fighter? Was I the mother of a dissident, or the self-sacrificing guardian of a freedom-loving warrior? How many times did people take me to the top and then fall headlong into the ground? "They caused me to crash? However, I didn't deserve either of them. They didn't raise me up because of my own talents or merits, and it wasn't because of my own mistakes that they brought me down." Iranian writer Perinuş Sanie tells the important events of recent Iranian history "from the inside" through his hero, who witnessed the 1979 Revolution and the establishment of the Islamic Republic, and then the Iran-Iraq war. The main reason for choosing these turbulent years of Iran as the period is the need to convey how women's identity was suppressed in every situation. Masume is married off to someone she doesn't know at a young age by the religious, oppressive and sexist family she was born into. In the absence of her communist husband, who is fighting his own struggle, she works various jobs and raises her three children alone. Masume will experience the stages of exploitation through motherhood after her female identity is nullified through being a good daughter. My Share is the narrative of women who do not accept their share, even though the table in front of them is set by tradition for hundreds of years. "No one wants us to live for ourselves, everyone wants to keep us for themselves." (From the Promotional Bulletin)