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Abdoh, Salar

Summary: "Saleh, the narrator of Out of Mesopotamia, is a middle-aged Iranian journalist who moonlights as a writer for one of Iran's most popular TV shows but cannot keep himself away from the front lines in neighboring Iraq and Syria. There, the fight against the Islamic State is a proxy war, an existential battle, a declaration of faith, and, for some, a passing weekend affair. After weeks spent...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABD

Abdoh, Salar

Summary: "A sweeping, propulsive novel about the families we are born into and the families we make for ourselves, in which two brothers struggle to find their place in an Iran on the brink of combusting Amid the alleyways of the Zamzam neighborhood of Tehran, a woman lights herself on fire in a desperate act of defiance, setting off a chain reaction of violence and protest. Haunted by the woman's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABD

Abdoh, Salar

Summary: Iranian ex-pat Reza Malek's quiet professorial life is upended when he returns to Tehran to help his best friend Sina Vava who is involved with Shia militants.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABD

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