The
first English-language story collection from “one of Iran’s most important living fiction writers”
(Guardian)
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.
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. He lives in California.
