Jaafar Modarres-Sadeghi
Jaafar Modarres-Sadeghi was born in 1954 in Isfahan. He is the critically acclaimed author of several collections of short stories and novels, including On Taraf-e Khiyaban [The Other Side of the Street], Vaqaye'-e Ettefaqiyyeh [Something Happened], Davazdah Dastan [Twelve Stories], Ab-o Khak [The Homeland], Tup-e Shabaneh [The Nightly Gun], Didar dar Halab [Appointment in Allepo], Nakojaabad [Nowhereland], Balon-e Mahta [Mahta’s Balloon], His novel, Gavkhuni (translated into English as The Marsh), was published by Mazda in 1996.
Introduction
Part One
1. Who Is Lost
2. The Best Place in the Park
3. Who Was With Whom?
4. Seesaw
5. Garden of Sheba
Part Two
6. Old Friends
7. Whom Do You Want?
8. I Wish My Name Were Typhoon
9. Empty Bed
10. I’m Looking for Jahan
Part Three
11. How Would He Know?
12. Light Blue
13. With Peace of Mind
14. Who Was There?
15. The Best Place in the World
16. Khosrow Parviz
17. Come Out!
18. Discovering the City
19. What Farhad Did for Shirin
20. Now It Was the Rain’s Turn
Part Four
21. No One Cared
22. Red Ribbon
23. On the Mountain Peak
24. The Safest Place and the Only Safe Place
25. The Last Time
26. The Chorus