Informed by firsthand experience on the battlefronts of Iraq and Syria, Abdoh captures the horror, confusion, and absurdity of combat from a seldom-glimpsed perspective that expands our understanding of the war novel.
Salar Abdoh Libros
Esta autora profundiza en temas complejos de identidad y desplazamiento, a menudo inspirándose en sus propias experiencias con la migración y la búsqueda de un hogar. Su prosa es reconocida por su calidad lírica y su profunda perspicacia psicológica en personajes que lidian con choques culturales y crisis personales. A través de descripciones conmovedoras e imágenes evocadoras, explora la fragilidad de la conexión humana y la resiliencia del espíritu. Su obra ofrece una perspectiva única sobre las experiencias de quienes navegan en su lugar en el mundo.
Tehran Noir
- 329 páginas
- 12 horas de lectura
This entry in Akashic's noir series takes the gritty sensibilities born out of American film and fiction to Tehran.
Tehran at Twilight
- 236 páginas
- 9 horas de lectura
Iranian ex-pat Reza Malek's quiet professorial life is upended when he returns to Tehran to help his best friend Sina Vava who is involved with Shia militants --
The Poet Game
- 228 páginas
- 8 horas de lectura
In the wake of the World Trade Center bombing of 1993, New York has become Ground Zero for an intricate web of betrayals and double-crosses in the shadowy world of Islamic fundamentalism. Sami Amir arrives in Brooklyn via Iran, his mission to investigate rumours of terrorist plots that are set to culminate around Christmas and New Year, only a handful of weeks away . . . 'The spy novel is given fresh legs with this thriller about New York-based Muslim radicals, arms dealers, and an Iranian double agent.' Daily Mirror 'An original, fast-paced spy thriller of Middle Eastern espionage and counter-espionage.' The Times
A sweeping, propulsive novel about the families we are born into and the families we make for ourselves, in which a man struggles to find his place in an Iran on the brink of combusting Amid the alleyways of the Zamzam neighborhood of Tehran, a woman lights herself on fire in a desperate act of defiance, setting off a chain reaction of violence and protest. Haunted by the woman’s death, Issa is forced to confront the contradictions of his own family history, throughout which his late brother Hashem, a prominent queer artist in Tehran’s underground, defied their father, a skilled martial artist bound to traditional notions of honor and masculinity. Issa soon finds himself thrown into a circle of people living on the margins of society, negotiating a razor-like code of conduct that rewards loyalty and encourages aggression and intolerance in equal measure. As the city explodes around him, Issa realizes that it is the little acts of kindness that matter most, the everyday humanity of individuals finding love and doing right by one another. Vibrant and evocative, intimate and intelligent, A Nearby Country Called Love is both a captivating window into contemporary Iran and a portrait of the parallel fates of a man and his country—a man who acknowledges the sullen and rumbling baggage of history but then chooses to step past its violent inheritance.