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White Red
by Mehdi Yazdani Khoram
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We are Figments of God's Imagination...
A breath-taking and innovative novel about contemporary Iran and its revolution
WHITE RED is a narrative of people whose destinies become intertwined in January 1980 in the chaotic post-revolutionary Tehran. The main character of the novel, who’s the juncture of all incidents, is a thirty-three-year-old Kyokushin practitioner who should fight fifteen battles for the black belt: an average clerk of the statistics office with his ordinary life, his loneliness after being abandoned by his fiancé for no reason, and his interest in literature leading him to write a few corny romantic books ignored by everyone, and with his chronic disease, has now put all his effort into the fight for earning the black belt which is all he’s got now.
In each of these brief yet severe battles a particular clue directs the narration to a snowy day in 1980 Tehran. Every one of them opens the gate to bizarre happenings taking place in the context of actual historical events; happenings that both astonish and shock us. A mixture of reality and writer’s fantasy opens the door to the lives of people each disclosing a mysterious history: The secret life of Guita, an ambitious superstar in the pre-revolution cinema of Iran where her bold roles result in the anger of the extremists after the revolution; the fears and hardships of a Greek priest who’s in charge of returning the nuns to Europe after the revolution; an old Jew who intends to purify his blood even by going into a pool full of leeches; the internal battle of a religious old woman for adopting the bastard sons of two dead members of the Mujahedin; a poor balloon seller whose wishes are realized overnight due to people’s superstitious beliefs; and the last Iranian ambassador in Dublin who’s forced to hide the first Pahlavi king’s bones so that the revolutionaries won’t be able to lay a hand on them.
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It’s a breath-taking and fascinating novel about the accidental yet interconnected encounters of people who have come together in one historical era. WHITE RED is a fast paced novel in which there are parodies of some historical figures such as Stalin and his mummy. It also looks to the role of radical communists and the newly empowered in the new government. Using short sentences and chapters, the author has tried to narrate the ups and downs of contemporary Iran.
While the print run of a novel in Iran is commonly one thousand copies a year, this novel has sold six thousand copies in just one year, which indicates the huge reception by a vast majority of fiction fans. WHITE RED can attract different types of readers, even those who know nothing about Iranian revolution. The suspenseful and attractive adventures of the novel make us follow its stories that, regardless of time and place, can happen to anyone; it is a book for all types of readers.
Author Biography
Mehdi Yazdani Khoram was born in 1979 in Tehran. He has a bachelor's degree in Persian literature from The University of Tehran and a master's degree in the history of art from Islamic Azad University. He has been writing in popular reformist papers as a literary critic for years and is also the editor-in-chief of Tajrobeh magazine. He has won many awards for his novels and has been nominated for many others, including 7 Eghlim Literary Award, Bushehr Literary Award, Forty Literary Awards, Mehregan Literary Award, Vav literary award, and etc… WHITE RED has been reprinted eight times in four years and won Forty Literary Awards. His other novel, I LOVE MANCHESTER UNITED, has been reprinted ten times in eight years and translated into Turkish and Italian. His style is similar to that of Louis-Ferdinand Céline. A Turkish critic, Omar Ilhan, has compared him to John Dos Passos. WHITE RED is one of the most important novels of the intellectual wave in Iranian literature.
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Copyright © 2016, Nashre-Cheshmeh Publishing House, Tehran, Iran
Nashre-Cheshmeh Publishing House
Nashre-Cheshmeh is a family business with more than 100 employees. It is one of the most active private publishing houses of the country with more than 1500 books, an annual number of 130 new ones, and six bookstores. The house has been working for more than 35 years, publishing the works of the most significant Iranian writers, poets, and translators, and the young generation of the best Iranian literary figures of the country. Many of these writers have novels, short stories, or poems published, or going to be published, in the European countries, the US, and Asia. We have always supported Iran’s joining the Berne Convention, thus tried to acquire the Persian translation rights for the titles we publish, such as the books by Orhan Pamuk, Steve Toltz, Patrick Modiano, Javier Marias, Rolf Dobelli, Alain Badiou, Klaus Modick, Ben Clanton, Siri Kolu.
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- Publisher Nashre-Cheshmeh Publishing House
- Orginal LanguagePersian
- ISBN/Identifier 9786002295361
- Publication Country or regionIran
- Pages266
- Publish StatusPublished
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