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      • You Will Return to Isfahan
        Fiction

        You Will Return to Isfahan

        by Mostafa Ensafi

        If you think that Iran is merely a land of war and revolution, you’ll be surprised to be taken into its romances to realize that Iran is a land of love rather than anything else.   Shamim Shamseh, a well-established and successful literature professor, has lost the love of his life, Audrey, many years ago, never knowing why. Now with the appearing of Elisa -a polish girl who has apparently come to Iran to seek her grandma who was forced to migrate to a camp near Isfahan during the second world war- he walks down the memory lane and relives what he knows of Audrey or at least his assumptions about her. Elisa is aware that Shamim was once her mother’s lover. However, Shamim still yearns to unfold Audrey’s secret as much as Elisa wishes to know about her mother’s unknown side through his eyes. Despite his wife and child’s insistence to leave turbulent Iran after the 2009 Iranian presidential election, Shamim stays in the country and tries to find Audrey, or perhaps himself, with Elisa’s help. In this quest, he comes to know about some aspects of himself and of people around him, which were formerly unknown. Is Audrey the same as before? Why did beautiful Audrey disappear all of a sudden? Why did she leave everything behind including her passionate love?

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      • The Assembly of the Wretched
        Fiction

        The Assembly of the Wretched

        by Salman Amin

        Like Life: Real, Bitter and Sweet; A Vivid Picture of Unseen Tehran   The story takes place in Tehran. The main character is a conscript named Qasem, who lives with his younger brother and his mother, Masoumeh. After the death of her husband, Masoumeh has married Ismail, a smuggler who uses her as a cover. To prevent his mother's impending trip with Ismail to move drugs, Qasem requests a leave of absence from Colonel Ghafoor. The colonel objects for no apparent reason and Qasem's excessive insistence leads to a conflict with the colonel. After wounding another soldier, Qasem runs away and hides at an abandoned gas station in the south of Tehran where Kobra, her young son, and Ibish live. Kobra is an addicted dealer and Ibish, suffering from all kinds of delusions as a result of consuming meth, clutches at straws to force his wife to live with him again. Later on, Maget joins them, a professional thief seeking revenge on his mistress who has married another man in his absence. Looking for a way to save his family from misery, Qasem, a now-wanted, unintentionally joins these miserable refugees and gets involved in their strange adventures, not knowing that his case has become a political and security case...

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      • Snail Day
        Fiction

        Snail Day

        by Zahra Abdi

        The story is created by two narrators. The two women who have been living next door to each other, commence a bitter and end-less story in which each stand on both sides of the story. Afsoun, in the middle of the 80s, is “the girl next door" whom Khorso is in love with. In hesitation of letting himself to lose his heart to Afsoun, or leaving to go to the battlefield, he chooses the harder. He is missing after 11 days of being sent to the front-end.   The other side of the narration is left to Shirin, Khosro’s sister. Afsoun describes the sudden absence of Khosro, and Shirin, who observed the formation of a half-done love story, recounts this painful loss from her own perspective. The novel is not limited to the 80s and reflects Tehran today, and except for limited situations, it doesn’t travel to the past. The whole story is not grounded on an "absence". Khosro is absent, and this absence has brought about two new women from his beloved sister and his love. Women who, while maintaining their vulnerabilities and their pains, still thrive to answer their unanswered questions. Although SNAIL DAY is caused by the absence of Khosro, it is not the story of Khosro.   The third important woman in the story is Khosro’s mother. She aims to takes Shirin’s life under her control, similar to what she had been doing to Khosro’s life. She represents the dominant social behavior; she intrudes into the most personal matters of her children, and tires to oversee those matters. She represents the dominant ideology of the society (today and in the past). She has such a long and dominant presence whereby Shirin is obliged to shelter, not only in a fictitious love but in an imaginary life on the internet, out of sight of the ruling power.   Shirin, through the internet, is in a relationship with a young man, a randomly taped movie salesclerk, who sees her, in the real world, only every couple of days. As the wall between Afsoun and Khosro in the 80s, there is now an iron curtain between the two souls which works similarly.   The tick wall in the past, the present love in an unreal world, a mother who restlessly aims to control her grown-up children are all the fundamental metaphors of the story. The story also hints at a psychological melodrama. We can not believe that the absence of Khosro, if caused by any other reason, would have had a similar effect on Afsoun and Shirin.   Hence, SNAIL DAY doesn’t ignore the source of the psychological effect on the two main narrators; even though the story doesn’t spend even half of the focus on the reason of the “absence”, but still doesn’t ignore it.   SNAIL DAY is and isn’t the narration of a passionate love story. This state of suspense is accompanied by the uncertainty of the two main characters of the story. SNAIL DAY has certain questions – similar to those of Afsoun, Shirin, and Kosro – that it hasn’t found an answer to.

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      • Under the Carefree Afternoon Sun
        Fiction

        Under the Carefree Afternoon Sun

        by Jeyran Gahan

        A different narrative of love between a Jewish girl and a Muslim boy   This novel is a narration of the life of the Jewish minority in Iran and their coexistence with Muslims. It’s the story of a girl called Mona living in a fanatic and strict Jewish family. She sings and plays the Taar. She meets Shahriar, a Muslim musician from a traditional family. Love sparkles and the story begins. According to Islamic and Jewish law, their marriage is not allowed unless one of them converts, yet conversion is forbidden in both religions. Mona’s aunt, Javahir-Jan, is a wise woman who also plays the Taar and is her only true supporter in the family. When young, she was also involved in a forbidden love story. Mona’s rebellious sister, Edna, who is bold enough to follow her own way, takes traditions for nothing and moves to Israel to buy her freedom. Mona is bound to make a choice: either forget about love or converts and marries Shahriar. Should she choose to go to Edna’s way or Javahir-Jan’s? Is there any other choice leading to a different destiny?

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      • White Red
        Fiction

        White Red

        by Mehdi Yazdani Khoram

        We are Figments of God's Imagination... A breath-taking and innovative novel about contemporary Iran and its revolution   WHITE RED is a narrative of people whose destinies become intertwined in January 1980 in the chaotic post-revolutionary Tehran. The main character of the novel, who’s the juncture of all incidents, is a thirty-three-year-old Kyokushin practitioner who should fight fifteen battles for the black belt: an average clerk of the statistics office with his ordinary life, his loneliness after being abandoned by his fiancé for no reason, and his interest in literature leading him to write a few corny romantic books ignored by everyone, and with his chronic disease, has now put all his effort into the fight for earning the black belt which is all he’s got now.   In each of these brief yet severe battles a particular clue directs the narration to a snowy day in 1980 Tehran. Every one of them opens the gate to bizarre happenings taking place in the context of actual historical events; happenings that both astonish and shock us. A mixture of reality and writer’s fantasy opens the door to the lives of people each disclosing a mysterious history: The secret life of Guita, an ambitious superstar in the pre-revolution cinema of Iran where her bold roles result in the anger of the extremists after the revolution; the fears and hardships of a Greek priest who’s in charge of returning the nuns to Europe after the revolution; an old Jew who intends to purify his blood even by going into a pool full of leeches; the internal battle of a religious old woman for adopting the bastard sons of two dead members of the Mujahedin; a poor balloon seller whose wishes are realized overnight due to people’s superstitious beliefs; and the last Iranian ambassador in Dublin who’s forced to hide the first Pahlavi king’s bones so that the revolutionaries won’t be able to lay a hand on them.

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      • I’m Probably Lost
        Fiction

        I’m Probably Lost

        by Sara Salar

        A bold narration of a secret life in a woman’s head   I’M PROBABLY LOST takes place in Tehran. It narrates a day of a middle-class woman’s life. She drives aimlessly in the streets playing with the idea of cheating on her husband. As she wanders in the city, she delves into her childhood and its odd happenings. She reviews her rough adolescence and also her platonic love for a man. And above all, she thinks of Gandom; an old friend who always seemed to be the opposite of her in terms of boldness, liveliness, and freedom of spirit, yet very much like her. The woman is now married and has a child. She is going through a great deal of emotional strain due to the abundance of memories and dilemmas. She lost touch with Gandom a long time ago and now on the verge of a rebellion begins to look for her. On the one hand, she wishes to be with another man; a man who was in love with Gandom years ago and probably has news of her now. On the other hand, norms, ethics, and even her child are giving her cold feet. What will be her decision? Where’s Gandom now and what has become of her?

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