Mahmoud Dowlatabadi

• Mar-2007
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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.Ly...

• May-2012
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On a pitch black, rainy night in a small Iranian town, the colonel paces back and forth inside his house waiting for the inevitable �" the knock on the door from the secret police. From there he will be taken to the tortured body of his youngest dau...

• Jun-2014
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“Dowlatabadi draws a detailed, realist picture of Iranian life . . . in language that is complex and lyrical.” -- The Financial Times

In the midst of the Iran�"Iraq War, an Iraqi journalist is given a tour of a military prison. The M...

• Aug-2014
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On a strategic hill overlooking the frontier, Iraqi and Iranian troops battle for access to a water tank. The troops are thirsty and on the brink of madness. They are, moreover, characters in a novel being written by an Iraqi journalist. That is, if ...