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Seasons of Purgatory
- Author
- Shahriar Mandanipour
- Narrator
- Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Publish Date
- 15 February 2022
- Run Time
- 5 hours 41 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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.
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Details
- Author
- Shahriar Mandanipour
- Narrator
- Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duration
- 5 hours 41 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 February 2022
- ISBN
- 9781696607681
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Genre
- Short stories, Narrative theme: Politics, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
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.
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