Lovers of the Old Testament is a collection of six short stories by Moniro Ravanipour. The stories share a creative use of Persian Mythology elements as well as a general theme of loneliness and alienation in the lives of immigrants rooted up from their homelands.About the Author: Moniro Ravanipour is an internationally acclaimed innovative writer who is the author of ten titles published in Iran, including two collections of short fiction, Kanizu and Satan's Stones, and the novels The Drowned, Heart of Steel, and Gypsy by Fire. Her tales, described as "reminiscent in their fantastic blend of realism, myth, and superstition of writers like Rulfo, Garcia Marquez, even Tutuola," frequently take as their setting the small, remote village in southern Iran where she was born.