The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of A Novel of the Iran-Iraq War, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi's Thirst.
This is just out from Melville House in the US; Haus (seem to have) published a UK edition a couple of months back, but I can't seem to find it in their (perhaps not entirely up-to-date ?) catalogue.
More disappointingly, it appears to have gone largely unnoticed so far -- I haven't been able to find any reviews whatsoever.
Come on, folks -- this is the new Dowlatabadi ! The guy is on a stamp, for god's sake !
Interesting also that this was one of the titles awarded a 2013 English PEN grant for translation, subsidizing the translation -- except the grant announcement has the book being: "translated from the Farsi by Aida Bahrami". Yet the novel now winds up as a translation credited to Martin E. Weir .....
This is just out from Melville House in the US; Haus (seem to have) published a UK edition a couple of months back, but I can't seem to find it in their (perhaps not entirely up-to-date ?) catalogue.
More disappointingly, it appears to have gone largely unnoticed so far -- I haven't been able to find any reviews whatsoever.
Come on, folks -- this is the new Dowlatabadi ! The guy is on a stamp, for god's sake !
Interesting also that this was one of the titles awarded a 2013 English PEN grant for translation, subsidizing the translation -- except the grant announcement has the book being: "translated from the Farsi by Aida Bahrami". Yet the novel now winds up as a translation credited to Martin E. Weir .....