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Seasons of purgatory / Shahriar Mandanipour ; translated from the Persian by Sara Khalili.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Persian Publisher: New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: First editionDescription: 205 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781942658955
  • 1942658958
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Shadow of the cave -- Mummy and honey -- Shatter the stone tooth -- Seasons of purgatory -- If she has no coffin -- King of the graveyard -- The color of midday fire -- Seven captains -- If you didn't kill the cuckoo bird.
Summary: In this collection, the fantastical and the visceral merge in tales filled with opposites: the boredom and brutality of war; modern urban life and rural traditions; tender desire and sudden violence. Mandanipour delivers fierce social critique in stories steeped in the beauty of an ancient land and culture.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction MANDANIP SHAHRIYA Available 33111010931984
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST

The first English-language story collection from "one of Iran's most important living fiction writers" (Guardian), "a playful, whip-smart literary conjuror: a Kundera or Rushdie of post-Khomeini Iran" (Wall Street Journal)

In Seasons of Purgatory , the fantastical and the visceral merge in tales of tender desire and collective violence, the boredom and brutality of war, and the clash of modern urban life and rural traditions. Mandanipour, banned from publication in his native Iran, vividly renders the individual consciousness in extremis from a variety of perspectives: young and old, man and woman, conscript and prisoner. While delivering a ferocious social critique, these stories are steeped in the poetry and stark beauty of an ancient land and culture.

Shadow of the cave -- Mummy and honey -- Shatter the stone tooth -- Seasons of purgatory -- If she has no coffin -- King of the graveyard -- The color of midday fire -- Seven captains -- If you didn't kill the cuckoo bird.

In this collection, the fantastical and the visceral merge in tales filled with opposites: the boredom and brutality of war; modern urban life and rural traditions; tender desire and sudden violence. Mandanipour delivers fierce social critique in stories steeped in the beauty of an ancient land and culture.

Translated from the Persian.

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