The Kite Runner on Shahnameh: “Hassan’s favorite book by far was the Shahnamah, the tenth-century epic of”
Destiny Disrupted on Shahnameh: “the poet Firdausi, who was writing Shahnama (The Book of Kings), an epic history of the Persian nation from the beginning of time to the birth of Islam, all in rhyming couplets.”
The Hero with a Thousand Faces on Shahnameh: “Firdausi's Shah Nameh ('Epic of Kings') is a rehearsal in simple and stately narrative verse of the story of ancient Persia down to the Mohammedan conquest.”
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye on Shahnameh: “She spent her time sewing huge pictures in silk-pictures of stories – the stories from the Shahnama, of Rüstem and the Shah Kaykavus, who tried to emulate the djinns and fly...”