Seasons of Purgatory

Narrated by Fajer Al-Kaisi
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Pub Date Feb 15 2022 | Archive Date Feb 15 2022

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Description

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.

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...


Advance Praise

“Mandanipour served as a frontline officer in the Iran-Iraq war: a writer’s baptism of fire whose flames light up several stories here. . . . Seasons of Purgatory unites storytelling subtlety with scenes of visceral emotional impact.” —Wall Street Journal

“Cause for celebration. . . . Mandanipour provides readers with a vivid and idiosyncratic map of [Iran’s] people and places, effortlessly translated by Sara Khalili whose close collaboration with the author is palpable on every gleaming, blade-sharp page." —Chicago Review of Books

“A stunning collection of stories about Iran’s traditions, its violent recent history, and how the memory of both influences daily life.” —Foreword Reviews (starred review)

“Mandanipour served as a frontline officer in the Iran-Iraq war: a writer’s baptism of fire whose flames light up several stories here. . . . Seasons of Purgatory unites storytelling subtlety with...


Available Editions

EDITION Audiobook, Unabridged
ISBN 9781696607681
PRICE $19.99 (USD)
DURATION 5 Hours, 41 Minutes

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