A new novel by the master of Iranian letters that directly engages politics in Iran today
Ten years in the writing, this fearless novel--so powerful it's banned in Iran--tells the stirring story of a tortured people forced to live under successive oppressive regimes.
It begins on a pitch b[...]

During the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, an Iraqi journalist is given a tour of a military prison. He is informed by the major in charge about what is expected of him: he is to write a fabricated report about a murder that has occurred in the camp, in order to demoralise the enemy soldiers. The journa[...]