Tehran noir / edited and translated by Salar Abdoh.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Persian Series: Akashic noir seriesPublisher: [Brooklyn, New York] : Akashic Books, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 329 pages : map ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1617753009
- 9781617753008
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Mystery | Abdoh Salar | Available | 33111007944925 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Tehran is a juxtaposition of ugliness and beauty that breaks the heart. A place where not one but two inept dynasties came to miserable ends, and where, arguably, the third most important revolution in history (after the French and the Russian) was started. And it was where one of CIA's first manufactured coups (with the prodding and support of the British) took place. In other words, there is something both spectacular and disgraceful about Tehran. With Tehran Noir, the Akashic Noir series' foray into the Middle East moves forward with this gripping collection.
The fat, fat story of the fat city / Danial Haghighi -- Fear is the best keeper of secrets / Vali Khalili -- A woman's geography is sacred / Lily Farhadpour -- The shelf life of revenge / Sima Saeedi -- The corpse fixer / Majed Neisi -- Lariyan's day in the sun / Aida Moradi Ahani -- The whitest set of teeth in Tehran / Salar Abdoh -- The restlessness of a serial killer at the finish line / Javad Afhami -- My own marble Jesus / Mahsa Mohebali -- In the flophouse / Farhaad Heidari Gooran -- A stoning before breakfast / Azardokht Bahrami -- Bridge of Simon / Yourik Karim-Masihi -- Not every bullet is meant for a king / Hossein Abkenar -- The groom's return / Mahak Taheri -- The gravediggers kaddish / Gina B. Hanai.
This entry in Akashic's noir series takes the gritty sensibilities born out of American film and fiction to Tehran.