Book
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- CENTRAL: First Floor Collection
Seasons of purgatory
Call Number
- FICTION MAND (CEN)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2022.
Physical Description
205 pages ; 21 cm
Summary
In this collection, the fantastical and the visceral merge in tales filled with opposites: the boredom and brutality of war; modern urban life and rural traditions; tender desire and sudden violence. Mandanipour delivers fierce social critique in stories steeped in the beauty of an ancient land and culture.
Notes
Translated from the Persian.
Contents
- Shadows of the cave
- Mummy and honey
- Shatter the stone tooth
- Seasons of purgatory
- If she has no coffin
- King of the graveyard
- color of midday fire
- Seven captains
- If you didn't kill the cuckoo bird.