This collection of stories from the Iran-Iraq War is the second work by Habib Ahmadzadeh to appear in English translation. The first was the novel "Chess with the Doomsday Machine" (Mazda, 2008). The nine stories in the collection, which was compiled...

"Appointment in Aleppo" was first published in Persian in 2004, although Modarres-Sadeghi had completed the writing of the novel two years earlier, in other words, in the wake of the tragic events of the morning of September 11, 2001, that is, the...

"Blue Logos" is the second major work of prominent Iranian writer, Shahrnush Parsipur, to be published in an English translation. In this a magical tale, Parsipur engages the reader in Western and Eastern philosophy, art, literature, mythology,...

Considered Hushang Golshiri’s magnum opus and the culmination of all his work in terms of his worldview and more importantly his vision of art and creativity, Book of Jinn is a masterpiece of Persian fiction that has been compares with James Joyce's Ulysses...

Chess with the Doomsday Machine (Shatranj ba Mashin-e Qiamat) is a novel by Habib Ahmadzadeh (b. 1964) about the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88). It is set in Ahmadzadeh’s native Abadan, a city located on an island near the Persian Gulf. Because of its...

Doran is a novel by Iranian fiction writer, Ruhangiz Sharifian, who in her work in general, and in this novel in particular, delves into the experiences of Iranian immigrants since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and the subsequent Iran-Iraq war. A sequel...

While in classical Persian literature one finds poems in praise of cities, in modern Persian literature, and specifically modern Persian fiction, we find merely a few cities in Iran that are indirectly and implicitly portrayed in novels and short stories, and...

Horse’s Head is a quest story of sorts in which the protagonist, Kasra, an unemployed white-collar worker, becomes acquainted with a young Kurdish woman and is infatuated with her and her plight with regard to Kurdish autonomy; after her departure he...

This collection provides a window on the concerns of Iranian women, writers in particular, since the Revolution of 1979 and the establishment of Islamic Republic in Iran. The collection includes eighteen stories written by more than a dozen women during the...

“I flip the pages again and begin at the beginning. My nose was filled with fumes from burnt powder. The words stoop before me and pass quickly through the gap between two piles of earth. Hoseyn crawls face first into the foxhole. I grab his arm and...