From one of Iran’s most acclaimed and controversial
contemporary writers, his first novel to appear in English—a
dazzlingly inventive work of fiction that opens a revelatory window
onto what it’s like to live, to love, and to be an artist in
today’s Iran.
I started making a list in my diary entitled “Things I
Have Been Silent About.” Under it I wrote. “Falling in
Love in Tehran. Going to Parties in Tehran. Watching the Marx
Brothers in Tehran. Reading Lolita in Tehran.” I wrote
about repressive laws and executions, about public and political
abominations.
