"South": The work of fiction by Babak Lokghomi is a solid rating of 4.25 from me.
Being a reimagination of life under the totalitarian regime, frankly, it is hard for me to rate the author's work, it feels like the work has a solid memoir-like base.
***Plot/Structure-5 points
***Characterization-4.5 points
***Prose-3 points ( granted the author mentions that the writing is very dry, which was pretty fitting for the work)
***Setting- 4 points ( personally would love to have a bit more folklore woven into work, like the idea of menmenda)
***Enjoyment-4.5 points ( just for my personal taste, descriptions like "horny" and such are not more enjoyable, but that is a very personal preference)

It reminded me of the work by Y. Zamyuatin, "We", which is also exploring life under a totalitarian regime, the "seductive agents" regime places to control people, and at the end the death of fight and opposition.
Also, Azar Nafisi's work "Read dangerously" is a very alike memoir, if one wishes to dive into experiences different authors shared.
The symbolism of the wind is veiled in every aspect of the work, which in my understanding the allegory of unrest, and resistance against radical regimes.

***Review with spoilers***
The work portrays the life of different classes, workers, intellectuals, fishermen, and such under the totalitarian regime, their struggles, ways of control and breaking personal will by totalitarian governments, and the physical and intellectual, emotional abuse one faces under such regimes. Rumors, sudden disappearances, and demoralization of character are the tools of the regime.
The work, in my opinion, also touches on the problem of people accepting revolutions ( in this case allegory of the author's assignment) and the optimism and minimal info people have when throwing themselves into the new regime.
The work portrays tools of control- one's usage of only approved canals of information interchange with the world, extreme censorship, tracking of every single cell of the society, the limitation of very basic resources of life, and breaking a person to the point of having no opinion or interest if you are not working for the regime, abuse of drugs to keep people "calm", the disappearances.
I appreciate the author mentioning the hallucinatory aspect of the work, it made my reading experience much better, as throughout the book you keep seeking answer whether what is happening is just a product of imagination, or not.

Would love to read more from the author. The work pretty much kept me on the edge of my seat.