A short story and quick read. It's interesting how the characters were affected by the parsnips and how these enhanced their lives in both temporary and longer term ways. Also how the inanimate parsnips helped their communication to improve overall.

A nice short read. The story has got a certain charm to itself. Many events in the story is really exaggerated, increasing the disconnect with reality. However, overall it had something interesting to say about life. :)

A tender portrayal of love through the ages in all its forms. You'll never look at 'Wonky veg' without recally this short story in the fable style. How Art's expression of the beauty of form, of shape , of the work of the sculpturer Nature brings out the emotions, the love in all of us.

If you have ten minutes this is the sweetest little story.

An interesting little book - very short for a novel, a little longer than a typical short story. This fable involves a farmer who finds a pair of parsnips grown together in way that suggests entwined lovers. At first he's afraid to let anyone see it/them, but then shares his find with a young man who suggests they share it on Facebook. The parsnips' beauty affects everyone who sees them.

This short story tells the tale of a farmer finding a parsnip, possibly two, that has grown like a sculpture of a man and a woman making love. He is moved by it and wants to keep it for posterity.It is an interesting take on obsession, love, sex, relationships and ultimately, the end of everything; be it for a vegetable or a person. 4 stars

A compelling and endearing look at rural life in Iran through the simple eyes of an ageing farmer and his wife.Love in their life has ebbed and flowed but now the tide seems always out and a great distance from the beach.Suddenly, and fans of Esther Rantzen and her TV shows like That’s Life will quickly catch on, the farmer falls in love with one of his vegetables. This isn’t just the world’s largest cantaloupe or my carrot looks like Donald Trump.No, he finds a parsnip, or is it two who have gr...

This has been the most unusual short stories in the Prime Reading collection. In Parsnips in Love, our protagonist, a farmer in Iran, finds a parsnip while out farming one day. To be precise, it is two parsnips that look like they are making love. This captivates our protagonist and he wants to hide and protect his treasure. In fact, he becomes somewhat obsessed with maintaining it in its current form. He also thinks about the position of the parsnips and how intense their lovemaking seems to be...

I loved this book it was quirky and weird and made me smile.

Just amazingWhen I put this book on my kindle I must have had a reason. I must have read something that made it sound like I would like the book.This book/story was a complete surprise, a feel good story about love. Live like no other. Just amazing someone had this story and wrote it for me to marvel about.

In a sense, brilliant.In another sense - pretentious.I'm somewhere in the middle but I am glad I read this.

I am concerned

““We are all beautiful when we are young,” his wife said, and for a moment he remembered her body in butter. “But it passes.””Very strange but thought provoking!

Yes, Yes, I know this has deeper meaning but I can't get over sexy vegetables. Blame Craig Ferguson's dirty vegetable pics from the Late Late Show. 🤣

Parsnips in Love by Porochista Khakpour is a modern fable with an ancient feel and a few twists. I was interested in this because it sounded romantic and mysterious and it was short. Between major reads, I am always in search of short ‘palate cleansing’ material. I was also hoping to learn something about the author’s culture. The story is magical, clever, and at times disturbing. Being a solid fan of magical realism, I should be a huge fan of this story. I am conflicted, though. I have thought

Parsnips in Love: A Short Story was a very interesting short story, overall. Though somewhat odd in nature, it was also a very sweet, thought-provoking read. It was a very unique story, that poses many questions about life, love, sex, relationships and death. "From award-winning Iranian author Porochista Khakpour comes a tender fable about the shapes love takes, a discovery of ineffable beauty, and the desire to make it last.An ailing farmer in rural Iran unearths an extraordinary find: two pa...

In Porochista Khakpour’s enjoyable short story, the lives of an Iranian farmer, his wife, and their farmhand are changed by the discovery of an unusually shaped parsnip (or parsnips). The story is told in a simple, comic fashion, in the manner of a traditional-style tale for a 21st century audience.There are plenty of moments to consider what happens when we create or assign meaning, and what we do, or do not do, to identify, enjoy, and protect the most important things in life.This audio versio...

What an odd story...but interesting and thought-provoking. A sad examination of an older couple’s relationship, but done in an extremely unique way. I’m sure I will never forget how this made me chuckle a little at first, and then I felt such compassion. A sad and oddly beautiful story.

I’ve never experienced a short story like this. There was so much to take from these pages that you’d expect it to be a novel instead. Passion and love are intertwined with aging and longing - the inevitable cycle that many of us will endure - seen in a couple of parsnips. It’s an old, withering farmer that brings the couple to life and creates a spark around the world. A rekindling is met among many as they think about the fervor of longing that comes with close intimacy.

This was an interesting little story about how a weird discovery of two entwined parsnips in the shape of a man and a woman in a sexual embrace changes and yet doesn't change the lives of the characters. They obsess about the discovery. Do they share it or keep it a secret? Do they eat it? Do they freeze it? And how does it change their relationships with each other and world around them? The answer to the last question is it changes them profoundly and yet hardly at all. It's a fun idea that is...