Perhaps the most important work in modern Iranian literature, this starkly beautiful novel examines the trials of an impoverished woman and her children living in a remote village in Iran, after the unexplained disappearance of her husband, Soluch.Lyrical yet unsparing, the novel examines her lif...
He was feeling suffocated and he had smoked so much that he had lost all sense of taste. The cracked pane in front of him had steamed up. It was unusually quiet. Every knock at the door broke the caressing silence of the rain. There was nothing but the sound of unremitting rain drumming on the ru...
Here we find another man, bent double, a man whose whole body is twisted, from his wrist to his neck and his back, so much so that he can’t sit straight anymore, can’t stand up straight anymore, and can’t walk straight anymore. And as he opens his eyes today – like every other day – this man refl...