Mahmoud Dowlatabadi

• Mar-2007
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Perhaps the most important work in modern Iranian literature, this starkly beautiful novel examines the trials of an impoverished woman and her children living in a remote village in Iran, after the unexplained disappearance of her husband, Soluch.Ly...

• May-2012
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A pitch black, rainy night in a small Iranian town. Inside his house the Colonel is immersed in thought. Memories are storming in. Memories of his wife. Memories of the great patriots of the past, all of them assassinated or executed. Memories of his...

• Jun-2014
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“Dowlatabadi draws a detailed, realist picture of Iranian life . . . in language that is complex and lyrical.” -- The Financial Times

In the midst of the Iran�"Iraq War, an Iraqi journalist is given a tour of a military prison. The M...

• Aug-2014
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Thirst is the latest novel translated into English by award-winning novelist Mahmoud Dowlatabadi. Following the critical success of his acclaimed 2013 novel The Colonel, for which he won the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, Thirst is profound, hum...