The Eight Books: A Complete English Translation comprises an introduction framing Sohrab Sepehri as a modernist and the first complete translation which appears with the original Persian on facing pages.
Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi is Senior Faculty Lecturer of Persian Language and Linguistics at McGill University. She has translated several books from Persian to English and edited several volumes, including Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics and Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation. Prashant Keshavmurthy is Associate Professor of Persian-Iranian Studies at McGill University. He is the author of Persian Authorship and Canonicity in Late Mughal Delhi: Building an Ark (Routledge, 2016), essays on Persian and Urdu literature; modernism; and Persian literary criticism.
