Then the Fish Swallowed Him

Arian's first novel to appear in English, offering a snapshot of contemporary Iran across its extended allegory of despotism.

Info autore

The author, Amir Ahmadi Arian, is currently living in New York and teaching at the CUNY Graduate Center. He wrote this novel for his MFA at NYU under the mentorship of Joyce Carol Oates. He was the translator into Farsi for Cormac McCarthy among others, and a noted journalist. His has been published in The New York Times and The Guardian. His article, "Fragments from a war-torn childhood", published in Guernica made waves for his heart-wrenching and eye-opening story of growing up in Iran.

Riassunto

A powerful and harrowing psychological portrayal of an individual struggle against the state written in the tradition of The Stranger and 1984, Then the Fish Swallowed Him is an urgent expose of how power can bend reality and the people forced to live within its parameters.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Amir Ahmadi Arian
• Editore: Harper Collins Uk
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780008384180
• ISBN: 978-0-00-838418-0
• Dimensioni: 135 mm x 216 mm x 23 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Iran, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Psychological, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / Middle East / Iran, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, FICTION / Asian American & Pacific Islander