Издания и произведения

In a narrative riddled with surreal images, shifting perspectives, and dark humor, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi — widely acknowledged as the most important living Iranian writer — offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the warring countries as he questions the meaning of national identity and does something that has been nearly impossible to do in Iran for the last century: tell a true story. Reluctant to write the report, the writer spends a long night talking and drinking with the Major and detailing a work of fiction he is composing about a group of soldiers trapped on a hill, dying of thirst as they battle for a water tank with a group of enemy…