Seasons of Purgatory

Longlist, National Book Awards 2022 for Translated Literature

book cover for Shahriar Mandanipour, Seasons of Purgatory
ISBN 9781942658955
Bellevue Literary Press
photo of Shahriar Mandanipour (Photo credit: Danial Mondanipour)
Shahriar Mandanipour

Shahriar Mandanipour is an award-winning, exiled Iranian author and journalist who served in the Iran-Iraq war. His fiction has been published throughout the world, including two acclaimed novels published in English and the story collection Seasons of Purgatory. More about this author >

author photo of Sara Khalili (Photo credit: Miriam Berkley)
Sara Khalili

Sara Khalili is an editor and translator of contemporary Iranian literature. Her translations include Censoring an Iranian Love Story and Seasons of Purgatory by Shahriar Mandanipour, The Book of Fate by Parinoush Saniee, Kissing the Sword: A Prison Memoir by Shahrnush Parsipur, Pomegranate Lady and Her Sons by Goli Taraghi. More about this author >

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Translated from the Persian 

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In Seasons of Purgatory, the fantastical and the visceral merge in tales of tender desire and collective violence, the boredom and brutality of war, and the clash of modern urban life and rural traditions. Mandanipour, banned from publication in his native Iran, vividly renders the individual consciousness in extremis from a variety of perspectives: young and old, man and woman, conscript and prisoner. While delivering a ferocious social critique, these stories are steeped in the poetry and stark beauty of an ancient land and culture.

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