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Seasons of Purgatory

By: Shahriar Mandanipour, Sara Khalili - translator
Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
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The first English-language story collection from "one of Iran's most important living fiction writers" (Guardian).

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.

©2022 Shahriar Mandanipour (P)2022 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Political Short Stories World Literature Iran Middle East
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