In this novel, Fariba Hachtroudi returns to Iran, after thirty years of exile, to take the country's pulse. She paints a picture that is surreal, magical, and darkly funny -- but also appalling. Black humor makes her pen a redoubtable weapon. Her her...
A “fierce literary thriller” about an exiled woman confronting her past as a prisoner of a repressive theocracy (Kirkus Reviews). She was known as “Bait 455,” the most famous prisoner in a ruthless theological republic. He was one of the colo...