
Category: Papyrus
Tag: Ahmad Mahmoud
Author: Ahmad Mahmoud
Series: Contemporary, Iranian Novel
Publisher: Moin
Published: 1993
Written after Neighbors, A Tale of a City begins with the aftermath of the coup, that is exactly when the novel Neighbors ends, and accounts the gradual discharge, expel and execution of high-rank officers inclined to Tudeh Party from the Shahanshahi Army . A socio-historical novel with partial portrait of the lower class, A Tale of a City traces the life of Khaled, the protagonist of Ahmad Mahmoud's former novel Neighbors who is now an expatriate witnessing the hardships of men and women forced to bow by resistant to moral breakdown.
Read the first 30 pages of the book in Persian here. (You may need to install Adobe Flash Player)
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