Biography & True Stories
Trainspotter
by Ehsan Norouzi
A journey to the heart of Iran: a mirror reflecting the history of the world TRAINSPOTTER is an experience about Iranian railways: Ehsan Norouzi travels by train across Iranian railways over a period of time, does not even fail to visit abandoned or half-destroyed stations, and talks with switchmen, train drivers, train hostesses, and many other people who are somehow related to railways. It is an account of the discovery of the tracks which were meant to link different corners of Iran according to the international developments and political tendencies in different eras. In TRAINSPOTTER, Norouzi finds people who actually narrate the history of Iran in the light of construction, completion, and even destruction of these railroads.
