Fiction
The Guard
by Peyman Esmaili
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A thrilling novel; a modern narrative of a Persian myth
Siamak has lost his parents in a car accident many years ago. This incident and the harm it has inflicted on him change his whole future. Years later, he is an engineer working in southern Iran and is in love with Roshanak. She’s fallen for him too. However, his past always casts a shadow over him making him unable to cope with his destiny. He’s always on the run; from the accident and its perpetual wound, and the weird occurrence he faces in the south leading to a mysterious crime. Siamak moves to Kordestan to get away from it all forever, but instead, he gets stuck in a frozen desert full of abandoned houses and horrifying sounds. As he is passing through the desert, he realizes that he is not alone and is surrounded by shadows closing in on him: Sard-Khabs who are neither human nor animal, but something in between and even more terrifying; ghosts following him from the south to the frozen desert in Kordestan to take revenge. They govern this hell-like nature. There’s also a bizarre father and son with an even more bizarre history. In this most remote part of the world, Siamak remembers his past. He recalls the happenings and people from his past, which complete the puzzle of his adventurous life. It is concerning other inhabitants of this haunted world that he is to make a risky decision; a decision that carries the trace of his last memory of his father and that incident.
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Peyman Esmaili has been dubbed the writer of thrills and trepidations of the contemporary Iranian human. He narrates the lives of those people who are ceaselessly haunted by what lies in wait in the shadows, death, and unknown matters. His outstanding novel, THE GUARD, paints a picture of the shattered psyche of people who are awestruck and disgusted by political matters; those who encounter the unknown hidden in every corner of their history.
THE GUARD is a filled with mysteries and unpredictable events. It is considered to be one of the most outstanding Iranian novels of the last four years. Besides being one of the bestsellers, the book has been seriously marked by the best Iranian critics.
Author Biography
Peyman Esmaili is one of the most important contemporary Iranian authors. Born in 1971, he’s an electronic engineer. He began his literary career by writing for the press. His first book SEARCH YOUR RAINCOAT POCKETS was published in 2006. But he owes his popularity most of all to SNOW AND THE CLOUDY SYMPHONY; a fiction collection published by Nashre-Cheshmeh Publishing House in 2008 and welcome by the readers. Even after ten years from the first print, it is still on top of the readers’ list. This book won all the literary awards of that year: the Hooshang Golshiri Literary Award, Ruzi Ruzgari Award, and Press Critics Award for the Best Book of the Year... His first novel, THE GUARD, was published in 2013. His last book is a fiction collection called LET’S RETURN TONIGHT which was published in 2016. It was selected the best fiction collection of the year in a poll conducted by Tajrobeh magazine in 2016. Esmaili is interested in details and mysterious relationships in cities
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Copyright © 2014, Nashre-Cheshmeh Publishing House, Tehran, Iran
Nashre-Cheshmeh Publishing House
Nashre-Cheshmeh is a family business with more than 100 employees. It is one of the most active private publishing houses of the country with more than 1500 books, an annual number of 130 new ones, and six bookstores. The house has been working for more than 35 years, publishing the works of the most significant Iranian writers, poets, and translators, and the young generation of the best Iranian literary figures of the country. Many of these writers have novels, short stories, or poems published, or going to be published, in the European countries, the US, and Asia. We have always supported Iran’s joining the Berne Convention, thus tried to acquire the Persian translation rights for the titles we publish, such as the books by Orhan Pamuk, Steve Toltz, Patrick Modiano, Javier Marias, Rolf Dobelli, Alain Badiou, Klaus Modick, Ben Clanton, Siri Kolu.
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- Publisher Nashre-Cheshmeh Publishing House
- Orginal LanguagePersian
- ISBN/Identifier 9786002292704
- Publication Country or regionIran
- FormatPaperback
- Pages229
- Publish StatusPublished
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